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
Detail of the face of Mona Lisa showing the use of sfumato, particularly in the shading around the eyes.
Madonna del Prato (Raphael)
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
Sfumato
…which has gained considerable acceptance, sfumato is one of four modes of painting colours available to Italian High Renaissance painters, along with cangiante, chiaroscuro, and unione. The technique is a fine shading meant to produce a soft transition between colours and tones, in order to achieve a more…
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.