religious painting occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. The palette orchestrates warmth above all else - reds, ambers, and siennas take the lead. Chroma hovers near zero; colour declares itself through subtle shifts in hue rather than outright saturation. The highest-chroma note - #CDA96B - appears at just 6.3%, deployed as a precision accent against the quieter ground. From deepest dark to palest light, the palette traverses 73 units of the value scale - a span that creates natural depth.