Definitions for grisaille

grisaille gri·saille

Spelling: [gri-zahy, -zeyl; French gree- Grisaille is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

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Definitions for grisaille

noun

  1. monochromatic painting in shades of gray.
  2. a work of art, as a painting or stained-glass window, executed in grisaille.

Origin of grisaille

1840-50; French: painted in gray monotone, equivalent to gris gray + -aille noun suffix

Examples for grisaille

In two days Rubens finished his grisaille, and the glazing was done with certainty, with skill, with ease in half an hour!

It provides an early example of the use of grisaille to increase the illumination of the interior.

It does not divide itself so obviously into coloured and grisaille.

All expression is made in low, aristocratic tone, in grisaille.

It has neither the colour of mosaic glass nor the sparkle of grisaille.

The lower half of the clerestory windows is in grisaille and it is only in the upper half that we find coloured figures.

Other elaborate examples of Nicholas Jarry's work exist in the Paris library, mostly painted in grisaille.

Little Bible subjects were also painted, mainly in grisaille.

grisaille was plentifully used, and Salisbury was famous for it.

Plate 14 is an example of French grisaille in its earlier stage.

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