Meaning of grisaille | Babel Free

Definitions

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
2. A stained-glass window in this style.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“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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