The Masters · Chromatic Profile

Gerard
Hoet

1648 — 1733 · Early Modern

The Precision of a Dutch Academic To look at the work of Gerard Hoet is to see the calculated intersection of myth and reality. He did not merely paint stories; he constructed them using a technical vocabulary inherited from a family of glass painters. This …

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Gerard Hoet
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Gerard Hoet's own colours

Every 47 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