Color Palette Inspired by Veronica Veronese

Veronica Veronese detail

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Stephanie Chatfield

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Here’s a color palette inspired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Veronica Veronese. It’s a stunning work filled with rich greens, warm golds, and deep earthy tones. Feel free to use this palette for your own designs. It’s perfect for digital graphics, mood boards, or anything that could use a touch of Pre-Raphaelite color.

Veronica Veronese Color Palette
Step inside the burnished, dream-green world of Rossetti’s Veronica Veronese with this lush color palette, drawn directly from the painting’s velvet shadows and golden light

Veronica Veronese described by Rossetti:

Suddenly leaning forward, the Lady Veronica rapidly wrote the first notes on the virgin page. Then she took the bow of the violin to make her dream reality; but before commencing to play the instrument hanging from her hand, she remained quiet a few moments, listening to the inspiring bird, while her left hand strayed over the strings searching for the supreme melody, still elusive. It was the marriage of the voices of nature and the soul — the dawn of a mystic creation.
– Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The description above is using these colors from the palette: Background: EEDBA5, Quotation marks: 793705, Left Border: 1F2604 Text: 1F2604

Alexa Wilding is the model in Veronica Veronese, and she appears throughout many of Rossetti’s later paintings. For a wonderfully engaging look at her life as a Pre-Raphaelite muse, Kirsty Stonell Walker’s novel A Curl of Copper and Pearl offers a vivid and entertaining reimagining of Alexa’s world.

Alexa Wilding
Alexa Wilding, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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