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How to use grisaille in a sentence

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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.
The grisaille paintings portray archivolt figures as well as saints in scenes which parallel the main motifs.
Painted in grisaille, they show a top-hatted character wandering through hilly landscapes and inclement weather.
Although she paints basically in grisaille, she will often add color to the figures to approximate old-fashioned hand-tinted photographs.
They are rendered in grisaille on a gray ground bordered by a gold strapwork design.
He is best known for, and indeed gave his name to, a kind of grisaille which gives the illusion of a marble relief, often over a door or chimney piece.
The scenes in grisaille are sometimes rendered more subtly by hatching, executed with a pointed tool or needle to reveal the dark enamel beneath.
Special technical processes included are painted grisaille, champleve, cloisonne, basse-taille and plique-a-jour.
Pair of stained glass windows, composed of small squares of translucent glass framed by a rim painted in grisaille decorated with foliage scrolls and rosettes in the corners.
Ignudi overlap grisaille herms and fictive bronze medallions as a dazzling array of quadri riportati panels narrate episodes from Ovid.
Large panels of grisaille glass, designed to let in more light, stand between the coloured panels with figural imagery.
After about 1300 the geometric grisaille glass gave way to simpler diamond-shaped pieces, painted with delicate trails of foliage and leaded together to give the effect of trellis work.
Emulator of Popelin, he remained faithful to the Renaissance and early XVIIth century styles, with his taste for polychrome enamels associated with grisaille and gold monochrome.
Painted in the grey and black grisaille style Picasso reserved for his most serious works, its lack of colour reflects the news reels that inspired it.
Grisaille enamelware obtains a design in light and shade by painting over an opaque white background in one colour.
Examples from Classical Literature
It provides an early example of the use of grisaille to increase the illumination of the interior.
The lower half of the clerestory windows is in grisaille and it is only in the upper half that we find coloured figures.
In two days Rubens finished his grisaille, and the glazing was done with certainty, with skill, with ease in half an hour!
Other elaborate examples of Nicholas Jarry's work exist in the Paris library, mostly painted in grisaille.
It has neither the colour of mosaic glass nor the sparkle of grisaille.
All expression is made in low, aristocratic tone, in grisaille.
It does not divide itself so obviously into coloured and grisaille.
Plate 14 is an example of French grisaille in its earlier stage.
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