A material study / 072
Virgo: The Harvest Table
Ferrara · Fig, raw linen & olive wood.
August’s Virgo at Palazzo Schifanoia supplies a harvest setting. Raw linen, wheat, figs and olive wood become a restrained dining-room palette, with plum and lavender lending depth to an oatmeal ground.
01 / The palette
Six colors, one atmosphere.
Screen colors are authored interpretations. Material photographs show surface character; they are not calibrated color samples.
02 / Play with the composition
Give the ground room, then place the accent.
Adjust the six colour areas in a screen composition. The illustrated room keeps its original materials and light.
Palette proportions / Total 100%
Starting points
An editable screen composition; the room remains a fixed imagined reference.
Raw Linen: 30%; Olive Wood: 15%; Lavender: 10%; Plum Wool: 10%; Sage Linen: 20%; Limestone: 15%
The source / Art history
A month above the scene.
Schifanoia’s August pairs Virgo with Ceres and agricultural imagery, and is attributed to Gherardo da Vicenza. Our figs, lavender, linen, olive wood and wicker extend the harvest theme into a contemporary dining room. The palette is measured from its drawer, not from a photograph of the painting.
Musei Ferrara · August, Palazzo Schifanoia (1469–1470) ↗Read the holding institution’s record. No museum photograph or manuscript scan is reproduced here.
The calendar / Computed
The dates, in two frames.
Tropical
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Exact UTC ingresses
Enters: 2026-08-23 02:11 UTC
Next sign: 2026-09-22 23:57 UTC
Sidereal · Lahiri
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Exact UTC ingresses
Enters: 2026-09-17 02:11 UTC
Next sign: 2026-10-17 14:10 UTC
Intervals include the entry and exclude the next boundary. Sidereal offset at ingress: 24.2302° (Lahiri). Sign transitions are refined to one minute. Refinement is computational resolution, not a claim of observational accuracy. Local calendar dates may differ from UTC.
Calculation source and version
Lunologium source revision 4d4d8ecc · astronomy-engine 2.1.19. Generated reference for 2026–2028; year labels identify the year of entry, so a Capricorn interval continues into the next January.
Take away / A constellation card
Virgo, point by point.
This chart uses numerical star data supplied by HEASARC, a service of the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA/GSFC. Hoffleit & Warren, Bright Star Catalogue (1991) · Data-use terms.
North up, east left. Relative visual magnitude controls dot size. Positions use J2000.0 and a local projection with a cosine correction. The connecting lines were authored for this card; constellation boundaries and the Sun’s current position are not drawn. Print on A4 or Letter in portrait orientation.
Read the star coordinates
| Star | HR | Right ascension | Declination |
|---|---|---|---|
| 67Alp Vir | 5056 | 201.2983 | -11.1614 |
| 98Kap Vir | 5315 | 213.2242 | -10.2736 |
| 99Iot Vir | 5338 | 214.0038 | -6.0006 |
| 107Mu Vir | 5487 | 220.765 | -5.6583 |
| 51The Vir | 4963 | 197.4875 | -5.5389 |
| 29Gam Vir | 4826 | 190.415 | -1.4494 |
| 29Gam Vir | 4825 | 190.415 | -1.4494 |
| 15Eta Vir | 4689 | 184.9767 | -0.6669 |
| 79Zet Vir | 5107 | 203.6733 | -0.5958 |
| 93Tau Vir | 5264 | 210.4117 | 1.5444 |
| 5Bet Vir | 4540 | 177.6738 | 1.7647 |
| 109 Vir | 5511 | 221.5621 | 1.8928 |
| 110 Vir | 5601 | 225.725 | 2.0914 |
| 43Del Vir | 4910 | 193.9008 | 3.3975 |
| 3Nu Vir | 4517 | 176.465 | 6.5294 |
| 9Omi Vir | 4608 | 181.3021 | 8.7331 |
| 47Eps Vir | 4932 | 195.5442 | 10.9592 |
Tradition / Historical classification
A note on the tradition.
In the traditional classification recorded by Lunologium, Virgo is mutable earth, with Mercury as its traditional ruler. These are cultural categories, separate from the computed solar position and the colours sampled for this study.
03 / Translate
From a room to an interface.
The interface
Objects, rooms & materials
The Harvest Table
August’s Virgo at Palazzo Schifanoia supplies a harvest setting. Raw linen, wheat, figs and olive wood become a restrained dining-room palette, with plum and lavender lending depth to an oatmeal ground.
The same palette. Different roles.
Use this palette.
A suggested interface use of the study’s paper and accent. Supporting ink is added for legibility; original palette values stay intact.
#BBA792Supporting ink #171615Accent #42252BInspect application CSS
/* Sourced from Chromologium (https://chromologium.com/studies/virgo) */
/* Suggested application roles; original palette preserved separately. */
:root {
--study-surface: #BBA792;
--study-ink: #171615;
--study-accent: #42252B;
--study-accent-ink: #ffffff;
--study-original-1: #BBA792; /* Raw Linen */
--study-original-2: #C17A42; /* Olive Wood */
--study-original-3: #53485B; /* Lavender */
--study-original-4: #42252B; /* Plum Wool */
--study-original-5: #86886A; /* Sage Linen */
--study-original-6: #D5C3AD; /* Limestone */
}
Follow the material further.
Materials
The ingredients.
An imagined setting.
A contemporary interpretation,
with references kept beside the study.
Take away
Take the study with you.
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Sources & interpretation
A contemporary material tray and imagined harvest-table dining room, informed by a linked historical source. The six screen colours were sampled from this study’s specimen drawer; they are not measured historical pigments.
- Musei Ferrara · August, Palazzo Schifanoia (1469–1470)
- Musei Ferrara · illustrated Hall of Months tour
- Lunologium — Tropical and sidereal zodiac
The palette follows the authored material references in this collection. Room, object and material imagery were created for this study. These are imagined settings, with no affiliation to the fictional interface brands.
The controls explore screen composition, not physical pigment recipes or material measurements. Image rights · Image permissions