Sfumato

Sfumato in Italian means “smoky”; it is an Italian term for a painting technique which overlays translucent layers of color to create perceptions of depth, volume and form. The colors or tones blend so subtly that there is no visible transition. Leonardo da Vinci described sfumato as “without lines or borders, in the manner of smoke or beyond the focus plane.”

• A
• Alt Aussee
• Altarpiece
• American Defense, Harvard Group
• Anschluss
• Anti-Semitism
• Arbitration
• Aryan
• Aryanization
• Auction
• Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Austerlitz
• B
• Bauhaus
• Birkenau
• Blue Shield
• C
• Chartres Cathedral
• Collaborator
• Collecting Points
• Cultural Heritage
• Curator
• D
• Dachau
• Degenerate Art
• Duomo
• E
• ERR
• Ethnocentrism
• Eugenics
• F
• Fresco
• Frieze
• G
• Genocide
• Good Faith Purchaser
• H
• Holocaust
• I
• Impressionism
• In Good Faith
• In Situ
• J
• Jeu de Paume
• K
• Kristallnacht
• L
• Lebensraum
• Linz
• Looting
• M
• M-Aktion
• Mass Media
• Mein Kampf
• Mezuzah
• MFAA
• Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art
• Mural
• N
• National Socialist Party
• Nisei Officer
• Nuremberg Laws
• Nuremberg Trials
• P
• Patrimony
• Propaganda
• Provenance
• R
• Race Hygiene
• Renaissance
• Reparations
• Repository
• Restitution
• Roberts Commission
• ROTC
• S
• Scapegoating
• Sfumato
• Shtetl
• Spoliation
• Stereotype
• T
• Theresienstadt
• Treaty of Versailles
• Trophies of War
• Trophy Brigades
• U
• Unjust Enrichment
• W
• World Heritage List