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Juan
de la Cosa

1510

A Navigator of Unknown Waters Born around 1450 in Santoña, Spain, Juan de la Cosa was a man shaped by the salt and timber of the Cantabrian coast. He was not a painter of canvases, but a master of the sea and the parchment that …

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Juan de la Cosa
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Juan de la Cosa'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