He had noticed that wide double doors, painted in the pale brownish grey called grisaille, formed the further side of the tiny apartment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of Her Honeymoon] Reference

The thickening branches make a pink 'grisaille' against the blue sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men, Women and Ghosts] Reference

"grisaille," painted by Uccello, in the fifteenth century, in memory of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

Pen and grisaille drawing heightened with gouache.    From Wordnik.com.  [Licensed Dealer in Tea (for Cooper) | clusterflock] Reference

Over door the Muses painted in grisaille by Sauvage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

Round the wall grisaille paintings of cupids, admirable imitations of relief, by Sauvage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

Painters have rendered figures or scenes en grisaille, which literally means “in grays.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference

Four of them contain groups under canopies, with a background of grisaille and a wide border.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference

If so that means our perception functions analogously to the grisaille/ glazing method of painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Two-Streams Hypothesis] Reference

He does a preliminary sketch in charcoal and then the underpainting in grisaille, in the classic tradition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Sang For The Birds]

Owing to the lights being narrower in the fifth the border is omitted, and in the sixth the grisaille work is also omitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference

One grisaille with a young woman holding a bouncing boy may represent Rea Silvia or Ino, carrying young Jupiter, or perhaps Bacchus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Correggio's Conundrum] Reference

After a while Burke peered out one of the stained-glass windows through scattered panes of pale amber grisaille, and turned to Sarah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Give Us Forever]

All expression is made in low, aristocratic tone, in grisaille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference

The amazing thing is that his frescoes, initially almost grisaille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Random feeds from Syndic8.com] Reference

It was at this time that manuscripts began to be painted in grisaille.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

Beneath this, in grisaille, are, -- Alexander placing the poems of Homer in the tomb of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art] Reference

Viollet-le-Duc, the grisaille in this position regulates the light and so completes the effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres] Reference

Many of our churches retain grisaille windows filling either all, or only a part, of their bays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres] Reference

Compared with the black-and-white approach of his predecessor, Obama's technique is practically grisaille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

The Lady Blanche's grisaille veils the rather strong blue tone nicely, and I am confident it will suit you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres] Reference

Sketchily painted in grisaille over raw canvas, the figure raises one arm as he strides across an empty stage against a drawn curtain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Here, where these little poor men begged or prayed, Andrea del Sarto was appointed to paint in grisaille scenes from the life of John the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition] Reference

"At first I used pastel-colored grisaille glass, but it was too expensive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Give Us Forever]