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OP Thanks Elizabeth! This looks like a good possibility, though perhaps there are other candidates for this word? At any rate, here's what the Oxford English Dictionary (online thru my local library) has to say about sfumato:
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. 1847 Manual of Oil-Painting 126 Sfumato. Painted with a light, vapoury touch. 1869 EASTLAKE 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.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted looking for a word: mountain ranges skirkrudeen 11/01/05 10:39 PM Re: looking for a word: mountain ranges Zed 11/01/05 11:33 PM Re: looking for a word: mountain ranges Elizabeth Creith 11/02/05 12:26 PM sfumato TEd Remington 11/02/05 01:49 PM Re: looking for a word: mountain ranges skirkrudeen 11/02/05 11:48 PM Re: looking for a word: mountain ranges Jackie 11/03/05 01:46 PM Re: looking for a word: mountain ranges zmjezhd 11/03/05 02:00 PM Re: looking for a word: mountain ranges Father Steve 11/03/05 07:50 PM Re: looking for a word: mountain ranges TEd Remington 11/03/05 09:23 PM Re: looking for a word: mountain ranges Elizabeth Creith 11/04/05 02:33 AM Re: looking for a word: mountain ranges Jackie 11/04/05 03:09 PM
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