sfumato
art terms glossary
Definition:
Sfumato is a painting technique in which the colors blend softly into each other, rather than objects or shapes having sharp outlines or hard edges.
sfumato - The term sfumato was coined by Italian Renaissance artist, Leonardo da Vinci, ...
SFUMATO
Italian for "shaded off". Gradual, almost imperceptible transitions of color from light to dark. Return to top
SGRAFFITO ...
Sfumato - 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.
SFUMATO a smoky, hazy effect with soft edges.
SHADE any color mixed with black.
SHAPE the outline of a figure or form. Shapes can be geometric (rectangles, triangles, and circles, etc.) or organic (irregular).
sfumato A painting technique using an imperceptable, subtle transition from light to dark, without any clear break or line.
sfumato - (pronounced sfu-ma-to) - Italian term meaning smoke, describing a very delicate gradation of light and shade in the modeling of figures; often ascribed to da Vinci's work (also called blending).
Sfumato: Sfumato is the haze of an image within a painting.
Silhouette: A silhouette is any profile portrait cut from black paper or painted in solid black.
Sketch: A sketch is a rough preliminary version of a composition.
Sfumato
(from the Italian for 'evaporated' or 'cleared like smoke' )
It describes a colour technique used by the artist so that the tones from light to dark, for instance, ...
Sfumato :- In painting, the technique of blurring or softening sharp outlines by subtle and gradual blending of one tone into another. Leaving a smoke like haziness. Return to top ...
Sfumato
a painting technique developed by Leonardo da Vinci, in which transitions from light to dark are so gradual they are almost imperceptible; sfumato blurs lines and creates a soft-focus effect.
Sgraffito ...
Detail of the face of Mona Lisa showing the effect of sfumato. ... Detail of the face of Mona Lisa showing the effect of sfumato. ... “Da Vinci†redirects here. ... For other uses, see Mona Lisa (disambiguation). .
Leonardo Da Vinci used oil paints and "sfumato" technique because he wanted to make paintings that looked real. He made his under painting by adding white (tint) and black (tone) to pure colors.
Key Descriptive Words and Phrases associated with the Renaissance Movement - rebirth, rediscovery of the classical world, sfumato, chiaroscuro, publication of Della Pittura, a book about the laws of mathematical perspective for artists, ...
Also see focus, gradation, sfumato, and shading.
blind arcade - In architecture, an arcade having no actual openings, applied as decoration to a wall surface. Also called a wall arcade.
One form glides imperceptibly into another (the Italian term is sfumato), a wonder of glazes creating the most subtle of transitions between tones and shapes.
Critique Corner Gallery - Alex at the Beach by Karen Austin
The Connotative Power of Words - Sydney J. Harris on Synonyms and Connotati...
Art Glossary Sfumato -- Painting Techniques Sfumato
Exclamations - Learning Italian ...
He also employed a sfumato effect in his figures, one of the trademarks of his Mona Lisa. In addition, he created mathematical formulas for human proportions.
Detail of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, showing the painting technique of sfumato ...
The soft colour tones (his famous sfumato), the dim light of the cave from which the figures emerge bathed in light, their quiet attitude, ...
of using a strong contrast between light and dark to give the illusion of depth or three-dimensionality. This comes from the Italian words meaning light (chiaro) and dark (scuro), a technique which came into wide use in the Baroque Period.; Sfumato ...
His skill with portraiture later led Van Cleve to Fontainebleau, where he painted Francis I and was exposed to the soft sfumato (from the Italian for “smoke') style of Leonardo da Vinci, ...
Raphael also owed much to Leonardo's lighting techniques; he made moderate use of Leonardo's chiaroscuro (i.e., strong contrast between light and dark), and he was especially influenced by his sfumato (i.e.
SFUMATO
in Italian it literally means "vanished in smoke." A process of softening edges in a work to create a soft atmoshperic depth.
SUPPORT
the surface that the painting is done upon.
TENEBRISM ...
sfumato - smoky; having vague outlines, colors and shades so mingled as to give a hazy, softened appearance *
sgraffito - design produced by scratching or incising through an outer layer of paint or glaze to reveal a contrasting ground * ...
 See also: Painting, Movement, Renaissance, Perspective, Classic
  
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