sfumatos
sfumatos is the plural of sfumato.
Meaning of sfumato
Noun
sfumato (usually uncountable, plural sfumatos)
- A painting technique, prominent during the Italian Renaissance, involving the application of subtle layers of translucent paint, blurring the transition between colors, tones and often objects and creating the illusion of depth.
- Another quality which was adopted from Leonardo, and of which the Florentines were especially enamoured, was the ‘sfumato’ system—the imperceptible softening of the transitions in half-tints and shadows.1869, Charles Lock Eastlake, Materials for a History of Oil Painting, Volume II, Longmans, Green & Co., page 206
Questions about sfumatos
- What is sfumatos the plural of?
- Sfumatos is the plural of sfumato.
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