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Inside the mind of Leonardo da Vinci
The Forum
Sumato, a Painting Technique, Is Pacularly Associated With Leonardo
This painting technique, which merina alluded to there, called sumato, is pacularly associated with leonardo. Can you explain what it was and why he wanted to bring it to this painting? Well, the first thing to say is, fumato is not really leonardo's word. He nowhere says us fumatoor or whatever. But it's become the word attached to it. And what it applies to is this indefiniteness of age. So is an optical technique working there, which is about the uncertainty of seeing. The image of the beloved woman in renaissance poetry is always slightly out of reach, never quite real enough to correspond with our own ragged
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