dierec
bouts
Dieric Bouts: The Silent Master of Early Netherlandish Painting In the vibrant, bustling landscape of the fifteenth-century Netherlands, where the works of Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden dazzled with their dramatic flair and technical virtuosity, there existed a different kind of mastery. …
A portrait built from dierec bouts's own colours
Every 51 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.