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    Grisaille (/ɡrɪˈzaɪ/ or /ɡrɪˈzeɪl/; French: grisaille, lit. 'greyed' French pronunciation: [ɡʁizaj], from gris 'grey') means in general any European painting...
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    The Catherine the Great egg, also known as Grisaille Egg and Pink Cameo Egg, is an Imperial Fabergé egg, one of a series of fifty-four jewelled enameled...
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    Life of Saint Fulbert Bay 34 Fragments of a Resurrection of Lazarus, grisaille Bay 36 Life of Saint Apollinarius Chartres' windows are celebrated for...
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    color. When a picture is monochromatically rendered in gray, it is called grisaille; when in yellow, cirage.[1] The term is also applied to monochrome painting...
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    the Virgin in the house of Saint John in Ephesus." Grisaille window from nave Detail of grisaille window The large stained glass windows on the upper...
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  • veneda, verdaccio, morellone, imprimatura and grisaille. The different types have different colourings. Grisaille is plain grey. Verdaccio is a grey tending...
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    Groeningemuseum in Bruges, Belgium. The outside of the shutters are painted in grisaille, while the inside shutters and center are oil on panel. The work belonged...
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    consist of some 40 grisaille woodcuts. Art critic Tord Baeckström in Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning wrote about the grisaille woodcuts: "Billman...
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    be added on top. The grisaille beneath would provide the shading, visible through the layers of color. Sometimes, the grisaille was simply left uncovered...
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    use of what is variously called "glass paint", "vitreous paint", or "grisaille paint". This was applied as a mixture of powdered glass, iron or rust...
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  • Yellow Gate" "Gareki No Toshi" Side three "Caledonia" "Motherly Bluster" "Grisaille" Side four "Caledonia (Sing Together Mix)" (bonus track, 45rpm) The following...
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  • technique Glassblowing Glaze (painting technique) Gongbi Gradation Grattage Grisaille Haboku Hierarchical proportion Illusionistic ceiling painting Impasto...
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    two colours, more generally known in English by the French equivalent, grisaille. The term broadened in meaning early on to cover all strong contrasts...
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    The text is written in Textualis Gothic bookscript. There are twenty grisaille miniatures within wide, decorated borders. (See illustration at right)...
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  • involving staged photographs of her subjects. Since 2012, her work has used grisaille to portray skin tones, a choice she describes as intended to challenge...
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    (1446–1451) The 13th century saw the introduction of a new kind of window, with grisaille, or white glass, with a geometric pattern, usually joined with medallions...
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    Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery is a small panel painting in grisaille (near monochrome) by the Netherlandish Renaissance printmaker and painter...
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    like most painters of his time, using either monochrome shades of grey ("grisaille") or a limited palette of browns and greys ("dead coloring"), over which...
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    decades of debate, it was decided to replace many of the 19th-century grisaille windows in the nave designed by Viollet-le-Duc with new windows. The new...
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    in common use as an artist's drawing material until the 19th century. Grisaille is a painting technique developed in the 14th century in which a painting...
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    Navarre Grisaille plate with Psyche Carried by Zephyr to Cupid's Palace, Pierre Courteys, c. 1560 Ewer, around 1600 17th century painted grisaille plaque...
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    Psyche Showing Her Jewelry to Her Sisters (Neoclassical, 1815–16), grisaille wallpaper by Merry-Joseph Blondel...
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  • Sharkskin, or grisaille (from french gris, meaning grey) describes a specific woven or warp-knitted fabric with a distinctive sheen. Sharkskin is a twill...
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    Royal Collection, London, UK 1914 Catherine the Great Also known as the "Grisaille". The egg was made by Henrik Wigström, "Fabergé's last head workmaster"...
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    in Vienna, Austria. The outside of the shutters panel are painted in grisaille on panel, while the inside shutters and the center panel are painted in...
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    Curvilinear coordinates Float glass Glass art Glass beadmaking Glassblowing Grisaille Lancet window Leadlight Mandorla Mullion Pontil Quatrefoil Rose window...
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    counted here among Rembrandt’s grisailles in preparation for an unfinished printed Passion series Ecce Homo 1634 Grisaille, paper on canvas 54.5 x 44.5...
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    an affluent textile industry family. He was particularly known for his grisaille style, often in gold and black. Sert initially studied art in Rome before...
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    consists of five lancets, each over 53 feet (16.3 m) high, filled with grisaille glass. A bishop of York was summoned to the Council of Arles in 314, indicating...
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    the Peruzzi Chapel in the church of Santa Croce, the large series in grisaille fresco in the Chiostro dello Scalzo, which was Andrea del Sarto's largest...
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