Home > Terms > Kazakh (KK) > меццо-тинто
меццо-тинто
A form of engraving where the metal printing plate is indented by rocking a toothed metal tool across the surface. Each pit holds ink, and if printed at this stage the image would be solid black. The printmaker works from dark to light by gradually rubbing down or burnishing the rough surface to various degrees of smoothness to reduce the ink-holding capacity of areas of the plate. The technique was developed in the seventeenth century, and became particularly popular in eighteenth-century England for reproducing portrait paintings. It is renowned for the soft gradations of tone and richness and velvet quality of its blacks.
- Loại từ: noun
- Từ đồng nghĩa:
- Blossary:
- Ngành nghề/Lĩnh vực: Art history
- Category: General art history
- Company: Tate
- Sản phẩm:
- Viết tắt-Từ viết tắt:
Ngôn ngữ khác:
Bạn muốn nói gì?
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Элизабет Тэйлор
A three-time Academy Awards winner, Elizabeth Taylor is an English-American film legend. Beginning as a child star, she is known for her acting talent ...
Người đóng góp
Featured blossaries
Browers Terms By Category
- Medicine(68317)
- Cancer treatment(5553)
- Diseases(4078)
- Genetic disorders(1982)
- Managed care(1521)
- Optometry(1202)
Health care(89875) Terms
- Legal documentation(5)
- Technical publications(1)
- Marketing documentation(1)
Documentation(7) Terms
- Fiction(910)
- General literature(746)
- Poetry(598)
- Chilldren's literature(212)
- Bestsellers(135)
- Novels(127)
Literature(3109) Terms
- Dictionaries(81869)
- Encyclopedias(14625)
- Slang(5701)
- Idioms(2187)
- General language(831)
- Linguistics(739)
Language(108024) Terms
- Biochemistry(4818)
- Genetic engineering(2618)
- Biomedical(4)
- Green biotechnology(4)
- Blue biotechnology(1)