an Italian word meaning "smoky"; it refers to a painting technique, where thin oil glazes are used to soften the gradation from light to dark in the modeling a form; sfumato is the opposite of chiaroscuro (example: Leonado's Mona Lisa).
From the Italian work for “smoke,” a technique of painting in thin glazes to achieve a hazy, cloudy atmosphere, often to represent objects or landscape meant to be perceived as distant from the picture plane.
(sfoo-mah-toe): Italian for ""blended" with suggestions of "smoky." An oil painting technique in which the artist coats the objects in a picture with layers...
A painting technique where changes in color or tone are so gradual that it is difficult to see where one ends and the next begins, intended to lessen the impression that an image is fixed and still. Most famously used by Leonardo da Vinci, who coined the term.
(sfoo- mah-toe) ~ Italian for "smoky." A oil painting technique in which the artist coats the objects in a picture with layers of very thin paint to soften edges and blur shadows. This creates a dreamlike effect of atmospheric mist or haze. Leonardo was the most skilled practitioner of sfumato in the Renaissance. This technique can be seen in his paintings The Virgin of the Rocks and The Mona Lisa.
In painting, the technique or blurring or softening sharp outlines by subtle and gradual blending (feathering) of one tone into another. The smoke like haziness of this effect lessens the perception that a still image is entirely still, instead lending a vague sense of movement.
The technique of blurring or softening sharp outlines by subtle and gradual blending (feathering) of one tone into another. This effect slightly lessens the perception that a still image is entirely still, instead lending a vague sense of movement. Best known in the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Correggio
A “smoky” style in the distance created by blurring outlines; one of the elements used by Leonardo da Vinci and later artists to portray atmospheric perspective.
Technique used to depict hazy, smoky shadows.
(sfu-ma-to) Italian term meaning smoke, describing the soft blending of light and shade of figure modeling. Da Vinci wrote in his Notes on Painting: 'light and shade should blend without lines or borders, in the manner of smoke'.
Sfumato is a term used by Italians to refer to a painting technique which overlays translucent layers of colour to create perceptions of depth, volume and form. In particular, it refers to the blending of colours or tones so subtly that there is no perceptible transition.
