Gerrit
Dou
biografia di un pittore prolifico Gerrit (Gérard) Dou, figura di spicco della pittura dell'età dell'oro olandese, nacque il 7 aprile 1613 a Leida, nei Paesi Bassi. Morì il 9 febbraio 1675, lasciando dietro di sé un'impressionante eredità di dipinti finemente lavorati che continuano ad affascinare …
A portrait built from Gerrit Dou's own colours
Every 100 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.
