noun
- a deep blue pigment made from powdered cobalt glass
Usage: technical; art
Examples
- The artist mixed smalt with oil to create a brilliant blue paint.
- Medieval painters valued smalt for its intense color.
- The restoration revealed layers of smalt beneath the surface.
- Smalt was commonly used in European paintings during the Renaissance.
- The blue in the sky was painted using smalt pigment.
- Glass manufacturers produced smalt by adding cobalt to molten glass.