grisaille
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from French grisaille.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪl
Noun
grisaille (countable and uncountable, plural grisailles)
- (art) 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.
- 1982, Meredith P. Lillich, Studies in Cistercian art and architecture, page 134:
- 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.
- A stained-glass window in this style.
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
grisaille f (plural grisailles)
Etymology 2
Verb
grisaille
- first-person singular present indicative of grisailler
- third-person singular present indicative of grisailler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of grisailler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of grisailler
- second-person singular imperative of grisailler
Further reading
- “grisaille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowing from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French grisaille
Noun
grisaille f (uncountable)
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