sfumato

sfumato

sfumato (Italian: ‘faded away’, from fumo ‘smoke’). Term used to describe the blending of tones or colours so subtly that they melt into one another without perceptible transitions—in Leonardo's words, ‘without lines or borders, in the manner of smoke’. Leonardo was a supreme exponent of sfumato and Vasari regarded his ability to mellow the precise outlines characteristic of the earlier quattrocento as one of the distinguishing marks of ‘modern’ painting.

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sfumato

sfumato (It., ‘faded away’, from fumo: ‘smoke’). Term used to describe the blending of tones or colours so subtly that they melt into one another without perceptible transitions—in Leonardo's words, ‘without lines or borders, in the manner of smoke’. Leonardo was a supreme exponent of sfumato and Vasari regarded his ability to mellow the precise outlines characteristic of the earlier quattrocento as one of the distinguishing marks of ‘modern’ painting.

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sfumato

sfu·ma·to / sfoōˈmätō/ • n. Art the technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms.

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