How To Use Grisaille In A Sentence
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The sacristy is also worth visiting: it was built in the 16th century and has some interesting grisailles from that period.
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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.
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They are rendered in grisaille on a gray ground bordered by a gold strapwork design.
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He made grisailles of the destitute and maimed which have a moralizing character.
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Painted in grisaille, they show a top-hatted character wandering through hilly landscapes and inclement weather.
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Grisaille enamelware obtains a design in light and shade by painting over an opaque white background in one colour.
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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.
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Although she paints basically in grisaille, she will often add color to the figures to approximate old-fashioned hand-tinted photographs.
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The mechanically produced grisailles are of the same high standard of quality that I have always demanded of my work.
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There were also smaller studies, many in grisaille.
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A grisaille snuffbox - you know it, Luc - and a perfume flagon with a gold collar.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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They immediately identified it as Degault from its en grisaille appearance (just think grey).
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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The center panel, executed in grisaille, shows the dog of the title - a pointer - walking down a flight of stairs somewhat uneasily, as dogs tend to do.
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Its colour scheme - grisaille on a dark blue ground - and the decoration of its reverse both suggest that it was made in Venice around 1540-60.
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When Eddy and Sophie met he mainly painted grisailles, works in shades of grey.
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Close-cropping and the primacy of grisaille - composed of complex black, luminous gray and iridescent white - keep the paintings away from the literality of seascape and any hint of tonal lyricism.
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A dramatic chandelier of 18th-century lead crystal hangs from a fraying hemp rope, while a modern tripod floor lamp illuminates an antique grisaille wallpaper panel by Zuber.
Rooms With a Viewpoint
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The grisaille paintings portray archivolt figures as well as saints in scenes which parallel the main motifs.
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The after-fashion for grisailles or _camaieu gris_ has reference probably rather to stained glass than to carving.
Illuminated Manuscripts
