| The famous smile was achieved through the use of a tonal technique sfumato. |
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| Fragments of the numbers seem to emerge from or recede into the gestures and sfumato of the ground. |
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| The landscape is idealised from Leonardo's studies of nature, portrayed with techniques of sfumato and aerial perspective. |
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| He creates rocky landscape backgrounds with misty atmospheric perspective, using sfumato and chiaroscuro to describe colour transitions. |
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| His use of sfumato and his figure types seem closer to the art of Lorenzo Lotto. |
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| The sensuous curves of the woman's hair and clothing, created through sfumato, are echoed in the undulating valleys and rivers behind her. |
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| In my research of colors and transparencies, I want to invite the imagination into a enveloping world, like a contemporary sfumato. |
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| Experts have long suspected sfumato shadowing has something to do with the glazes that da Vinci used above the paint layer. |
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| To judge from the blog started by some of the centre's disgruntled staff, their mood is decidedly sfumato. |
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| I diluted the pigments toward the cloak side in a desperate intent to reproduce Leonardo's sfumato. |
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| The Ancient Greek section is led by a stunning marble sfumato of Aphrodite from the island of Rhodes. |
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| While the face of the elderly St Joseph is in what was, by 1570, old-fashioned sfumato, the picture's younger subjects, Mary and the Christ Child, are bathed in the shadeless light of the Counter-Reformation. |
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| First of all, it allows me freer moves, that'll give a livier touch on the final paint. Second, it'll help me to reproduce the sfumato Leonardo cherished. |
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| Leonardo da Vinci's sfumato was a revolutionary process for Renaissance painting in the 15th century. Chris Levine's genius is to create unique images for the 21st century. |
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| That's the meaning behind the sfumato technique: derived from complex observations of optical behaviour, this technique is like a material translation, applied to painting, of Da Vinci's thoughts on perspective. |
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| The details of how the sfumato technique worked had not been determined before. |
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| In particular, he developed the sfumato technique, which consisted of wrapping figures and background in a smoky vapour, which gives his portraits and landscapes such a mysterious quality. |
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| The award encourages museums to commission new work and pounds 60,000 is donated to the winner by the Sfumato Foundation. |
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