religious painting occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues deployed as the palette's primary energy. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. #BA6131 delivers the chromatic peak at only 5.1% - a small shot of colour with outsized visual impact. The full value range is 59 units: broad enough to build convincing three-dimensional form.