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Grisaille

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    chiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of grey imitating the effect of relief wordnet
  3. 3
    A stained-glass window in this style. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French grisaille.

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