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单词 grisaille
释义

grisaillen.

/ɡrɪˈzeɪl//ɡrɪˈzʌɪ/
Etymology: < French grisaille, < gris grey (see gris adj.).
Painting.
a. A method of decorative painting in grey monochrome to represent objects in relief (see quot. 1854); a work, e.g. a stained-glass window, executed according to this method. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > painting in monochrome
camaieu1728
grisaille1848
monochromy1855
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > ornamental glass-work > [noun] > glass-colouring > glass-staining > stained glass > type of window
grisaille1848
white window1855
1848 B. Webb Sketches Continental Ecclesiol. 9 In the Lady-chapel are some modern grisailes [sic].
1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. ii. 41 The roof of the Sistine chapel has much architectural design in grisaille mingled with the figures of its frescoes.
1854 F. W. Fairholt Dict. Terms Art Grisaille,..a style of painting employed to represent solid bodies in relief, such as friezes, mouldings..bas-reliefs, &c., by means of grey tints. The objects represented are supposed to be white; the shadows which they project, and the lights..are properly depicted by..various grey tints.
1897 L. F. Day Windows 119 Early glass divides itself..into two classes: work in rich colour..and work in ‘grisaille’, as it is called; that is to say, in which the glass is chiefly white or whitish, relieved only here and there by a line or a jewel of colour.
figurative.1937 R. Storrs Orientations ii. 38 As I look on my lines they seem, compared with what he was, the mere grisaille cartoon of some heroic Victorian radiance.1965 Listener 4 Mar. 333/1 Schopenhauer was the first to admit his indebtedness to the French moralists, and the grissaille of his prose is relieved..by quotations not only from the French but [etc.].
b. attributive or adj. Executed in grisaille.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [adjective] > executed in monochrome
monochrome1849
grisaille1860
1860 Hist. Sketches Church St. Lawrence Ludlow 41 The windows were filled with grisaille glass.
1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 29 The designs of the glass are all ornamental patterns on light grisaille grounds.
1897 L. F. Day Windows 146 The best-known grisaille windows in England are the famous group of long lancets, ending the north transept of York Minster, which are known by the name of the Five Sisters.
1899 R. Glazier Man. Hist. Ornament 93 Painted Enamels were introduced and Limoges became the centre of this art, called late Limoges or Grisaille Enamel.
1968 Medium Ævum XXXVII. 63 One may not greatly admire..the 105 large grisaille pictures made by Jean Tavernier to illustrate the Brussels manuscript.
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