Definitions for grisailles

grisailles gri·saille

Spelling: [gri-zahy, -zeyl; French gree- Grisailles is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

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Definitions for grisailles

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 grisailles

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

Examples for grisailles

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

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

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

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

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

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

Little Bible subjects were also painted, mainly in grisaille.

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

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

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

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