sfumato

词形变化

sfumatos 复数 sfumatos

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

    不可数 艺术

    1960, Helmut Ruhemann, Leonardo's Use of Sfumato, in The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 1, British Society of Aesthetics, page 233, The interpretation of ‘sfumato’ is equally wrong. In ‘sfumato’ there is no blurring of the outlines which delineate the contours of figures and there is no blending or diminution of the definition of forms or for that matter any mellowing of colours.

    2018, Lena Redman, Knowing with New Media, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, page 234, No smeared sfumatos—blurred lines and borders—or anaemic chewing of emotions, just forcefully chopped slabs of substance.

    2022, Ellen Jones, Robin Myers (translators), Ave Barrera, The Forgery, Charco Press, unnumbered page, As I was saying, I was worried because my sfumatos didn't look anything like they did in the original.

词源

From Italian sfumato (“shaded, toned down”).

来源:wiktionary