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François
Roffiaen

1820 — 1898 · 19th Century

The Life and Art of François Roffiaen Born in Ypres, Belgium, François Roffiaen was a painter and etcher who dedicated much of his career to the depiction of landscapes. His artistic journey began in Namur, where he studied at the Academy of Painting under Ferdinand …

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François Roffiaen
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from François Roffiaen's own colours

Every 5 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