grisaille

How To Use grisaille In A Sentence

• The sacristy is also worth visiting: it was built in the 16th century and has some interesting grisailles from that period.
• Within the present exhibition, the emphasis is on Richter's paintings based on photographs, his pure paintings, his famous grisailles and in particular the abstract expressionist works.
• They are rendered in grisaille on a gray ground bordered by a gold strapwork design.
• He made grisailles of the destitute and maimed which have a moralizing character.
• Painted in grisaille, they show a top-hatted character wandering through hilly landscapes and inclement weather.
• Grisaille enamelware obtains a design in light and shade by painting over an opaque white background in one colour.
• On the back of each of the pair of vases is a frieze of dancing bacchantes framed at the sides and bottom by a scroll ornament all in grisaille.
• Although she paints basically in grisaille, she will often add color to the figures to approximate old-fashioned hand-tinted photographs.
• The mechanically produced grisailles are of the same high standard of quality that I have always demanded of my work.
• There were also smaller studies, many in grisaille.