Juan
van der Hamen
A Life Bathed in Light: The World of Juan van der Hamen Born into a world poised between the fading grandeur of the Spanish Golden Age and the burgeoning Baroque, Juan van der Hamen y León emerged as a pivotal figure in 17th-century Spanish painting. …
A portrait built from Juan van der Hamen's own colours
Every 12 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
