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Arent
de Gelder

1645 — 1727 · Early Modern

Early Life, Family and Training Arent de Gelder enters the scene in Dordrecht, born on October 26, 1645, into a family of rising status. His father, Jan Aertsz de Gelder, was born in 1609 and worked as a cooper of wine barrels. By the time …

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Arent de Gelder
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Arent de Gelder's own colours

Every 39 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.

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Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
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The Chromatic Knot

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.

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Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers