Sfumato (English: /sfuːˈmɑːtoʊ/ sfoo-MAH-toh, Italian: [sfuˈmaːto]; lit. 'smoked off', i.e. 'blurred') is a painting technique for softening the transition...

admired for its captivating beauty, mysterious demeanor, and mastery of sfumato. There is no real consensus on the subject, date, history, or purpose of...

sfumato, chiaroscuro and cangiante. Unione was developed by Raphael, who exemplified it in the Stanza della Segnatura. Unione is similar to sfumato,...

painting colours available to Italian High Renaissance painters, along with sfumato, chiaroscuro and unione. The word itself is the present participle of the...

the canonical painting modes of the Renaissance (alongside cangiante, sfumato and unione) (see also Renaissance art). Artists known for using the technique...

March 1829 – 23 July 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects and portraits. Henner...

The shadowy quality for which the work is renowned came to be called "sfumato", or Leonardo's smoke. Vasari wrote that the smile was "so pleasing that...

including the colours, the lighting, the flora, and the way in which sfumato has been used. Although the date of an associated commission is documented...

Burlington House Cartoon. According to Frank Zöllner, Leonardo's use of sfumato "conveys the religious content of the picture", with the "gentle shadows...

Detail of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, c. 1503–1506, showing the painting technique of sfumato...

particular his mastery of the use of graphic materials and the rendering of sfumato, resulting in a work of incomparable poetics and beauty. The Head of the...

shortening lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth. Sfumato – The term sfumato was coined by Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci and...

graffiti Scratchboard Screen printing technique Screentone texture technique Sfumato technique Shading Sgraffito technique Soft sculpture Spray painting technique...

Leonardo achieved by his method of not drawing outlines. The soft blending (sfumato) creates an ambiguous mood "mainly in two features: the corners of the...

Catherine of Alexandria. He also perfects his own version of Leonardo's sfumato modelling, to give subtlety to his painting of flesh, and develops the...

da Vinci, whose works he got to know there, can be seen in the use of sfumato. The painting belonged to Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, from whom...

and the manipulation of light and darkness, including tone contrast, sfumato (softening the transition between colours) and chiaroscuro (contrast between...

detailing. Atmospheric effects: many Mannerists utilized the technique of sfumato, known as, "the rendering of soft and hazy contours or surfaces" in their...

proportions similar to those of the Aphrodite of Cnidus and whose pronounced sfumato confirms the long-held idea that it is Praxitelean in style, in spite of...

to be "the finest Leonardesque picture not painted by Leonardo himself. Sfumato is evident in the work. The wood upon which it was painted comes from the...

July 18, 2024. Retrieved July 18, 2024 – via Naver. 라포엠 유채훈, 8월 5일 신보 'Sfumato' 발매..단독 콘서트 개최도. OSEN [ko] (in Korean). July 16, 2024. Archived from the...

artists of the same period, such as Raphael, although he adopted the use of sfumato that was introduced by Leonardo at the same time. Aerial perspective was...

later Romans. Zeuxis lived in 5–6 BC and was said to be the first to use sfumato. According to Pliny the Elder, the realism of his paintings was such that...

sources, which can generate complex multicolored shadows. Chiaroscuro, sfumato, and silhouette are examples of artistic techniques which make deliberate...

demonstrating the signature innovations he introduced in his paintings: sfumato and atmospheric perspective. The architectural features are drawn according...

and the manipulation of light and darkness, including tone contrast, sfumato (softening the transition between colours) and chiaroscuro (contrast between...

to copy black-and-white photographs onto canvases, adding a mysterious sfumato blur. Among the sources for the new paintings are Seeband's passport photographs...

and the manipulation of light and darkness, including tone contrast, sfumato (softening the transition between colours) and chiaroscuro (contrast between...

have been created over time to capture it, such as shading, chiaroscuro, sfumato, or tenebrism. On the other hand, light has been a particularly determining...

Salvador Dalí later utilized the technique, Dali calling the technique "sfumato". The technique has been utilized by artists including Bimal Banerjee,...