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 with black or a darker related hue. According to the theory of the art historian Marcia B. Hall, which has gained considerable acceptance, this is one of the canonical painting modes of the Renaissance; i.e. one of the four modes of painting colours available to Italian High Renaissance painters, along with sfumato, chiaroscuro and unione. The word itself is the present participle of the Italian verb cangiare ("to change"). This approach to the use of color is sometimes referred to as "cangiantismo".
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