Painting in monochrome, to imitate sculpture
A brownish paint made with iron oxide that is fused on to the surface of glass to define details in painted glass windows.
Coming from the French word for “gray,” this style of enameling uses only black and white enamels.
A painting using different grays only.
Usually means painted or decorated in tones of gray or black.
The technique of painting a highly-modeled, black and white monochromatic base painting and then glazing it with transparent colors.
Painting done exclusively in shades of gray to simulate the look of stone relief sculpture.
Actually a French word but used in English to describe paintin using only a white-t0-black color scale: grays. Not limited to ceramic usage.
Silvery tinted glass with floral patterns that replaced stained glass. Grisaille is the use of t black enamel to create patterns on clear glass. Grisaille was used quite widely from the beginning, and it became increasingly common until it all but replaced stained glass in what little was left of the market in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. See above
Deriving from the French word gris (grey), this is a painting executed entirely in monochromatic tones of grey and white. Although often used for study sketches, a painting en grisaille can be a completed work in its own right. Sometimes it has been executed as a model for an engraver to work from, or is the initial compositional underpainting for an unfinished picture. In Chinese ceramics this term is sometimes used to describe porcelains decorated with black or dark brown overglaze enamel.
A monochromatic or one-colour paint, typically grey, that can be used under coloured glazes.
A work rendered in monochromes (French: "grey").
a first layer of the painting that is monochrome, to plot out the basic forms, shadows and highlights before adding colour
a monochrome painting technique executed in tones of gray, often produced to simulate relief sculpture
a painting which has been executed in monochrome (i
with respect to stained glass, a style popular in the 13th century employing abstract rather than pictorial designs and much transparent white glass
Architectural trompe l'oeil painting done in monochromatic colors suggesting solid form, perspective or decorative plasters motifs.
window glass of greyish tone
(French gris, "gray") (1) A method of decorative painting in monochrome gray especially, but not exclusively, on stained glass windows; (2) brown paint made from iron oxide, which, when fused to the glass, defines details in a stained glass window.
(grÄ-zÄ«): French from the word gris meaning gray. Grisaille is a term used to indicate a monochromatic palette consisting of warm and cool shades of gray...
A monochrome painting done mainly in neutral grays to simulate sculpture.
A painting executed in monochrome greyish colors.
Monochrome decoration, usually gray, used on ceramics and furniture during the 18th and 19th centuries.
in relation to manuscripts, miniatures or historiated initials executed in monochrome shades of grey
A stained glass window incorporating muted tones as opposed to bright colors.
Window of ornamental geometric designs of a repetitive nature. Painted on a clear or light colored glass in a brown or black tracing color. The repetitive pattern was achieved through the use of a template cut into a thin sheet of copper. This template was then adhered to the surface of each piece of glass and paint applied.
Designs or figures in shades of grey, black and white imitating marble ornament. Most popular in neoclassical and Renaissance style wallpapers.
Chiaroscuro painting in shades of gray imitating the effect of relief
From the French gris (gray). Monochrome painting, often in gray, executed in a black pigment and an inert white pigment, and sometimes employing certain colors for highlights. Grisaille from the Hours of Jean d'Evreux, 1320's
From the French grisailler, "to paint grey," decorative leaded windows of clear, white or pale-tinted glass that may be unpainted or painted with a repetitive foliage motif or ornamental geometric design.
A painting technique using only grey tints. [ ] HAPPENING-- Loosely organized performance art that might include music, theater, dance, visual art, or audience participation.
Decorative monochrome painting in tones of gray, in oil, gouache or tempera, widely used for decorative panels for 18th-century interiors and occasionally for furniture.
A process developed in the thirteenth century for windows having the bulk of the glass white or gray with extensive leading. The most famous example in the UK is the Five Sisters window at York Cathedral.
A monochrome painting and drawing technique executed in tones of gray.
Fashionable in antique furniture designs from the 1700's, gray tint paint is used to represent solid bodies in relief.
Grisaille (grÄ-zÄ«', -zÄl') (Fr. gris, grey) is a term for painting executed entirely in monochrome, in various shades of grey, particularly used in decoration to represent objects in relief.