SFUMATO

Sfumato

Sfumato is one of the four canonical painting modes of the Renaissance . Sfumato comes from the Italian "sfumare", “to tone down” or “to evaporate like smoke”.

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sfumato

Noun

  1. In painting, the application of subtle layers of translucent paint so that there is no visible transition between colors, tones and often objects.


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