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Glossary entry

Italian term or phrase:

verdaccio

English translation:

verdaccio

Added to glossary by Moll
Jun 13, 2005 08:56
19 yrs ago
Italian term

verdaccio

Italian to English Art/Literary Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
colour used in ancient painting methods
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 verdaccio
4 vile/obnoxious/ugly/ miserable green

Proposed translations

+1
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verdaccio

"The mixed color, verdaccio, likewise, is not a definite quantity, but merely a dark, greenish or brownish tone for outlining and shading. The Italian expression seems to fill a want in our painters' lingua technica, for it is readily adopted by students."
Reference:

http://mujweb.cz/Kultura/barbora-hrebickova/bibliografie/cennini.html

Peer comment(s):
agree Béatrice Sylvie Lajoie : Verdaccio is a style of underpainting, which uses green-grey colours to establish values for later layers of paint. The technique is renowned for being particularly effective when painting flesh tones.
6 mins
agree Peter Cox
19 mins
disagree Susan Spier (X) : This is specified as a colour- not a style, and mixed colours often don't have exact direct translations - it could also be just dull green, but it does need to be translated for the meaning to be expressed.
10 hrs
You appear to be disagreeing with Béatrice rather than the expert I quote, who is telling us that verdaccio is the term used in the absence of any adequate equivalent in English.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks yet again"
10 hrs

vile/obnoxious/ugly/ miserable green

Declined
the suffix -accio means unpleasant so this is just an unpleasant green colour - your choice depending on how bad it actually is!
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Comment: "sorry but I couldn't possibly use one of your suggestions in a text about art!"
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