Cangiante
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Cangiante is a painting technique where, when using relatively pure colors, one changes to a different, inherently-darker color to show shading, instead of dulling the original color by darkening it w
The prophet Daniel from the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
An early example of cangiante by Giotto from the Arena Chapel. Note the shift in color on the robes.
Sfumato
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Sfumato is a painting technique for softening the transition between colours, mimicking an area beyond what the human eye is focusing on, or the out-of-focus plane. It is one of the canonical painting
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…canonical painting modes of the Renaissance; i.e. one of the four modes of painting colours available to Italian High Renaissance painters, along with sfumato, chiaroscuro, and unione. The word itself is the present participle of the Italian verb cangiare ("to change"). This approach to the use of color is…
Detail of the face of Mona Lisa showing the use of sfumato, particularly in the shading around the eyes.
Madonna del Prato (Raphael)