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Gustavus
Herter

1830 — 1898 · 19th Century

The Architect of Opulence: The Life and Legacy of Gustave Herter In the gilded heart of nineteenth-century New York, where the titans of industry sought to manifest their immense wealth through physical grandeur, one name resonated with the promise of unparalleled elegance: Gustave Herter. Born …

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Gustavus Herter
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Gustavus Herter's own colours

Every 1 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