Definitions
A painting technique that softens edges with delicate tonal transitions.
Word origin
From Italian sfumato (“shaded, toned down”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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.”
“As I was saying, I was worried because my sfumatos didn't look anything like they did in the original.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Soft-edge technique”7 letters
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