grisaille
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from French grisaille.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -eɪl
Noun[edit]
grisaille (countable and uncountable, plural grisailles)
- (art) 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.
- 1982, Meredith P. Lillich, Studies in Cistercian art and architecture, page 134:
- 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.
- A stained-glass window in this style.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
grisaille f (plural grisailles)
Descendants[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
grisaille
- inflection of grisailler:
Further reading[edit]
- “grisaille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from French grisaille.
Noun[edit]
grisaille f (invariable)
- Alternative form of grisaglia
Anagrams[edit]
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