English Dictionary

grisaille

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

(art) In painting, a method of working which employs only varying values of gray to create form. Often a preliminary step in a fully colored painting. / A stained-glass window in this style.

日本語の意味

絵画において、灰色の濃淡のみを用いて形を表現する技法。通常は、完全彩色の絵画に先立つ下絵として用いられる。また、この様式で作られたステンドグラスも指す。

The artist executed a delicate grisaille to establish the forms before adding color.

その画家は色を加える前に形を確かめるため、灰色だけを用いた繊細な下塗りを施した。

意味（1）

(art) In painting, a method of working which employs only varying values of gray to create form. Often a preliminary step in a fully colored painting.

Very pertinent relationships between these grisailles of the vegetal type and Islamic transennas have been established by Eva Frodl-Kraft, between that of Obazine with palmettes enchâssées, and a transenna from the Umayyad castle of Qasr-el Heir al Gharbi (about 727-750), today reconstructed at the National Museum in Damascus, and with a plaque, probably of Syrian origin, reused over a tomb in San Marco in Venice.

意味（2）

A stained-glass window in this style.

grisailles （ plural ）