grisaille

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Definition of grisaille

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noun

(countable, uncountable)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.

“Very pertinent relationships between these grisailles of the vegetal type and Islamic transennas have been established by Eva Frodl-Kraft, between that of Obazine with palmettes enchâssées, and a transenna from the Umayyad castle of Qasr-el Heir al Gharbi (about 727-750), today reconstructed at the National Museum in Damascus, and with a plaque, probably of Syrian origin, reused over a tomb in San Marco in Venice.”

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noun

(countable, uncountable)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.

“Very pertinent relationships between these grisailles of the vegetal type and Islamic transennas have been established by Eva Frodl-Kraft, between that of Obazine with palmettes enchâssées, and a transenna from the Umayyad castle of Qasr-el Heir al Gharbi (about 727-750), today reconstructed at the National Museum in Damascus, and with a plaque, probably of Syrian origin, reused over a tomb in San Marco in Venice.”
(countable, uncountable)A stained-glass window in this style.

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Unadapted borrowing from French grisaille.

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