I advised my daughter to look up sfumato in the dictionary.

In these works, he also exhibits mastery of sfumato.

In actuality, the painting was a surprisingly ordinary sfumato portrait.

He may have introduced the sfumato technique to Isenbrandt.

The shadowy quality for which the work is renowned came to be called "sfumato" or Leonardo's smoke.

Leonardo's atmospheric sfumato - the use of light and shade rather than line to define form - was another crucial influence.

She researched the painting for several months, and periodically she would ask questions: "What's sfumato?"

This is apparent in the use of sfumato in the Virgin and Child.

Zeuxis lived in the 5th century BC and was said to be the first to use sfumato.

Csaba Markus is closely associated with the sfumato technique.

The Italians have a word to explain Mona Lisa's smile: sfumato.

He strove for naturalism, as witnessed in his pioneering use of sfumato, perspective and chiaroscuro.

Salvador Dalí later utilized the technique in his paintings, calling the technique "sfumato".

His style follows the Emilian mannerism, characterized by the sfumato of colors and well rounded human bodies.

The opposite of sfumato is chiaroscuro.

A large number of smaller theatres, such as the Sfumato Theatrical Workshop, show both classical and modern plays.

Mr. Crouch peered and was rewarded with a study, sfumato, of unmistakable hands ungboving themselves deftly.

Her expression was hard to read, or had the monk's hand smudged, or age and grime bestowed a sfumato sympathy?

The faces and forms in the Louvre painting are more delicately painted and subtly blurred by "sfumato".

He is a painter of biblical and mythological set-pieces with a strong use of the misty sfumato technique.

The influence of Leonardo da Vinci, whose works he got to know there, can be seen in the use of sfumato.

The way that Leonardo uses shadow is called "sfumato" (which is an Italian word for "smoke").

Leonardo da Vinci described sfumato as "without lines or borders, in the manner of smoke or beyond the focus plane."

From the Renaissance he also frequently used sfumato modeling, and simple compositions, but combined them with Flemish style precision of details.

There are many minor ways in which the works differ, including the colours, the lighting, the flora, and the way in which sfumato has been used.