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‖ sfumato, a. (n.) Painting.|sfuˈmato|
[It., lit. ‘smoked’.]
(See quot. 1869.) Also as n., the technique of softening outlines and allowing tones and colours to shade gradually into one another; a softened outline or hazy form produced in this way.
1847Manual of Oil-Painting 126 Sfumato. Painted with a light, vapoury touch. 1869Eastlake Mater. Hist. Oil Painting II. 206 Another quality which was adopted from Leonardo..was the ‘sfumato’ system—the imperceptible softening of the transitions in half-tints and shadows. 1909R. Fry Let. 16 Feb. (1972) I. 312 The black is a wonderful sfumato with scarcely any modelling. 1935Burlington Mag. Feb. 72/2 The fine ‘sfumato’ and the delicacy of the surface. 1936Ibid. Oct. 192/1 The influence of Venice is said to have succeeded the abandonment of Leonardo's sfumato. 1965New Statesman 7 May 732/2 In all encounters with Leonardo there is never a definite answer to any of the artistic, aesthetic, historical or psychological questions which he raises. The sfumato—the suggestive smoke-like contour—is as much a characteristic of his personality as it is a feature of his drawing. |