High Renaissance occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Warm hues command this palette; it favours the reds, oranges, and yellows of firelight and earth. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The highest-chroma note - #AA553C - appears at just 4.1%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 55 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth.