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grisaille
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
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grisaille. A painting done entirely in shades of grey or another neutral greyish colour. The idea was evidently first used in stained glass. The earliest known examples in painting are among
Giotto's frescos in the Arena Chapel, Padua (
c.1305), where they imitate the appearance of stone sculpture. Grisaille was sometimes also used for underpainting or for oil sketches (notably in the work of
Rubens). See also
Camaieu.
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Trompe l'oeil grisaille, architecture & drapery.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 446 words
; 9780393731941 Trompe l'oeil grisaille, architecture & drapery. Benad, Ursula E. and Martin...instructions for creating trompe l'oeil works using the technique of grisaille. This technique simulates three-dimensional objects through...
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W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.(Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect)(Trompe L'Oeil Grisaille, Architecture and Drapery)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Bookwatch; 11/1/2006; 541 words
; ...definitive guide. Ursula L. and Martin Benad's TROMPE L'OEIL GRISAILLE, ARCHITECTURE AND DRAPERY (0393731944 $24.95) provides...manual of techniques for rendering tromp l'oeil painting in grisaille and monochrome palettes, using classic works to display both...
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W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.(Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect)(Trompe L'Oeil Grisaille, Architecture and Drapery)(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch; 11/1/2006; 551 words
; ...definitive guide. Ursula L. and Martin Benad's TROMPE L'OEIL GRISAILLE, ARCHITECTURE AND DRAPERY (0393731944 $24.95) provides...manual of techniques for rendering tromp l'oeil painting in grisaille and monochrome palettes, using classic works to display both...
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Waikato Stud secures Pins for stallion duties
Newspaper article from: The Press; 5/1/2000; 625 words
; ...meeting yesterday. Hannam piloted outsider Grisaille (38-1) to win the Property Brokers...Services Handicap over the same distance. Grisaille was particularly impressive, winning...after going clear with 300m to run. Grisaille, a five-year-old mare by Val d...
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Good and Gray At Middendorf
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/13/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...1981, in a gem of a show called "En Grisaille." Accompanying it is a handful of very...white prints by such advocates of art en grisaille as Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. Traditionally...Frederic Remington took advantage of grisaille to accentuate a dense fog in the distance...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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PHOENIX CONGREGATION TO RESTORE CHURCH WINDOWS; ON-SITE RENOVATION PLANNED FOR STAINED GLASS THAT DATES BACK TO 1876.(Neighbors Northeast)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 1/13/2005; 700+ words
; ...attached to some of the 20 ornate grisaille stained-glass windows installed when the church was built. The grisaille windows will be renovated and repaired...effort to have the windows renovated. Grisaille is a painting technique in which the...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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The real Rubens ... not a fat lady in sight; A new exhibition at Somerset House shows the Flemish master in an altogether different light.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 9/26/2003; 700+ words
; ...painting. To these terms we must add grisaille, which is, as it were, the French...few prints (for which highly finished grisailles were often the painter's final preparation...thirties. A sketch, fully colorito, not grisaille, the colour and composition very much...
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Awapuni
Newspaper article from: The Press; 2/20/1998; 655 words
; Grisaille and Rainbow Court were by far the best...work took place on the plough, where Grisaille and Rainbow Court were paired over 1200m...50.6, and the last 600m in 38.2. Grisaille was badly checked at a vital time in...
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Albert Oehlen at Luhring Augustine.(New York, New York)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...dripped in layers while the others are grisaille and rely on subtler techniques. Formats...Animal presents the most strongly defined grisaille image, though one is hard-pressed...orientation. The airy feeling of the grisaille works derives from wide brush-strokes...
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A closer look: can't get enough of the great design in this issue? Look no further.(Buyers Guide)
Magazine article from: House Beautiful; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...walls on page 88 are rendered in grisaille--a monochrome painting and drawing...Appearing as early as the Middle Ages, grisaille was popular from the Renaissance through the 17th century. Arte's grisaille-inspired Decor Panoramique panels...
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grisaille
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
grisaille , a monochrome painting and drawing technique executed in tones...Cathedral of Florence). Painters of stained glass frequently used grisaille. In the 17th cent. grisaille was prized for interior decoration.
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Chytilová, Věra
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...1982. Z na, Miroslav, and Vladimir Solecký, in Film a Doba (Prague), no. 5, 1982. Benoit, O., "Dans la grisaille tcheque: Vera Chytilova," in Cinéma (Paris), May 1984. Waller, E., in Skrien (Amsterdam), September...
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Gentile da Fabriano
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...evolution after Florence. His last works, the frescoes in St. John Lateran in Rome depicting the life of John the Baptist and grisaille portraits of saints, were destroyed in 1647, when Francesco Borromini reconstructed the interior. Further Reading The best...
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Giotto di Bondone
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...Below these scenes are figures personifying Virtues and Vices, painted to simulate stone reliefs —the first grisailles . The figures in the main narrative scenes are about half life-size, but from reproductions it is easy to imagine they...
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camaieu
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
camaieu A painting executed in several shades of a single colour; such a painting in greyish tones is known as a grisaille .
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