SFUMATO Meaning of SFUMATO in English [ sfʊ'mα:təʊ ]■ noun Art the technique of allowing tones and colours to shade gradually into one another.OriginC19: Ital., lit. 'shaded off', past participle of sfumare . Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004