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Grisaille   Listen
noun
Grisaille  n.  
1.
(Fine Arts) Decorative painting in gray monochrome; used in English especially for painted glass.
2.
A kind of French fancy dress goods.





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"Grisaille" Quotes from Famous Books



... food; and as he cast a last sweeping glance at the beautiful church, remembering the warlike imagery of its details, the buckler-shape of the rose-windows, the sword-blades of the lower lights, the casque and helmet forms of the ogee, the resemblance of some grisaille glass with its network of lead to a warrior's shirt of mascled mail; as, outside, he gazed at one of the two belfries carved into scales like a pine cone—like scale-armour—he said to himself that the "Builders for God" must have borrowed their ideas from ...
— The Cathedral • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... bronze in the church, the monuments of six centuries, were destroyed. But to the reign of Louis the Well-Beloved was reserved the crowning infamy: in 1741 the glorious old stained-glass windows, rivalling those of Chartres in richness, were destroyed by Levreil and replaced by grisaille with yellow fleur-de-lys ornamentation. Happily the destruction of the rose windows was deemed too expensive, and they escaped. The famous colossal statue of St. Christopher, the equestrian monument of Philip le Bel, and a popular statue of ...
— The Story of Paris • Thomas Okey
... their place and wear down into harmony. The effect of tempered sadness was heightened for us by stormy lights and dun clouds, high in air, rolling vapours and flying shadows, over all the prospect, tinted in ethereal grisaille. ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds


Words linked to "Grisaille" :   chiaroscuro


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