Stefan Lochner Palette 1

Palette Analysis

Stefan Lochner is high-key - luminous, open, and weighted toward light. The dominant temperature is warm, with earth tones and fire-hues setting the emotional key. Chroma is kept low across all colours, producing the soft, enveloping quality that characterises tonal painting. The dominant colour, #DAC9B5, takes 29.8% of the total area, establishing the overall mood before any other hue is introduced. At 3.5%, #445D8B carries the palette's sharpest chromatic charge: an accent that earns its place precisely because it is withheld. A value spread of 64 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Stefan Lochner's complete body of work advances.