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Jakob
Seisenegger

1505 — 1567 · Renaissance

The Habsburg Portraitist Jakob Seisenegger did not rely on flamboyant gestures to command a room. Instead, he utilized a precise, meticulous craftsmanship that made him the indispensable choice for the Austrian Habsburg dynasty. As the court painter to Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, Seisenegger was …

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Jakob Seisenegger
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Jakob Seisenegger's own colours

Every 14 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