Examples of 'grisaille' in a sentence

Meaning of "grisaille"

Grisaille is a noun describing a painting done entirely in monochrome or shades of gray
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  • In painting, a method of working which employs only varying values of gray to create form. Often a preliminary step in a fully colored painting.
  • A stained-glass window in this style.

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Four imitation statues in grisaille make up the inner panels.
This grisaille with putti is one of his very rare paintings.
The basics of grisaille style.
The niche around the central couple contains a number of biblical figures in grisaille.
The finished grisaille.
Great attention has been paid to the decorative background and the work in grisaille.
How to paint grisaille.
Grisaille and later Limoges enamel are types of painted enamel.
Portrait in grisaille.
The longer wall holds statues or busts of the Habsburg rulers in grisaille.
He soon became well known for creating grisaille paintings of small birds in their cages.
The two outer wings contain an Annunciation scene in grisaille.
Some of the windows require grisaille enamel and baked to achieve the necessary effect.
Colour makes itself so distinctly felt that the term grisaille no longer.
The back is a grisaille painting of Christ falling under the Cross.

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As we turn along the north side of the nave we encounter a Grisaille.
Hyperrealists often include preliminary drawings or grisaille painting and molds into their creative process.
The ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel have portions of the design in grisaille.
The piece is entirely decorated with grisaille paintings by Niccolò Bambini.
A couple of grisaille paintings were uncovered on the staircase, featuring eagle and weapon motifs.
This is called a Grisaille.
Willeboirts made the grisaille centerpieces for two of Daniel Seghers garland paintings.
Niches in the walls contain classical statuary ; above the niches are grisaille panels.
There are twenty grisaille miniatures within wide, decorated borders.
Inside, the wide aisleless nave is lit by the clerestory windows with grisaille glass.
Over the doors are grisaille paintings of putti, in various human activities.
Grey was also frequently used for the drawing of oil paintings, a technique called grisaille.
It shows a nativity scene with grisaille archways and trompe-l'œil sculptured reliefs.
Ceiling painting, illusory architecture, grisaille.
In that occasion, the grisaille painting of the external shutters were discovered, although damaged.
Arrondissement of Paris he executed in grisaille a series of Panels,.
A set of nine grisaille designs in pen, wash and gouache are spread between several museums.
How to paint in grisaille technique?
In time, grisaille can flake off ; it can also be scratched easily.
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford preserves a beautiful grisaille bozzetto on preparatory paper on Senigallia 's painting.
Did Raysse deliberately choose to experiment, like so many of his predecessors, with grisaille painting?
Finished grisaille, Here you see the completed grisaille.
Painting, what is the grisaille.
A boundary is achieved here with the grisaille archway, strongly reminiscent of van der Weyden 's work.
The chancel 's south window contains early 14th century grisaille glass in the head.
Wednesday 's weather, grisaille on the north of the country, variable south.
The outer wings of 15th-century diptychs and triptychs typically contained Annunciation scenes painted in grisaille.
A grisaille by Jean de Saint-Igny or Juste d'Egmont acquired by the Louvre.
The " inside " side is in grisaille.
In 1953, two grisaille frescoes were discovered on the shorter sides of the room.
In 1953 two grisaille fresco was discovered on the shorter sides of the room.
The pillars bear grisaille frescos of Biblical figures, painted in the 1690s.

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