grisailles

I love the concept of black and white, I went to the Royal Museum of Fine Arts here in Brussels and I saw my first grisailles and I was blown away.

The grotesque, the fantastique, niche marketing and printmaking « Jahsonic 2007

But nine years later, Charles bought another collection of twenty-three Italian works including six grisailles attributed to Caravaggio and paintings by Titian and Guido Reni.

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

But nine years later, Charles bought another collection of twenty-three Italian works including six grisailles attributed to Caravaggio and paintings by Titian and Guido Reni.

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

But nine years later, Charles bought another collection of twenty-three Italian works including six grisailles attributed to Caravaggio and paintings by Titian and Guido Reni.

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

But nine years later, Charles bought another collection of twenty-three Italian works including six grisailles attributed to Caravaggio and paintings by Titian and Guido Reni.

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

Some jewel-encrusted, others with beautiful miniatures, grisailles, and more.

A Lady of His Own Laurens, Stephanie 2004

These lateral grisailles are still opaque enough to prevent the solar rays which pass through them from lighting the coloured windows on the reverse side; yet, at certain hours of the day, these solar rays throw a pearly light on the coloured windows which gives them indescribable transparence and refinement of tones.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

All we can do is to note that the grisailles were intended to have values.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

Blanche; further on, three other grisailles bear also the famous castles, but this is by no means the strongest proof of feminine taste.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

A number of these are grisailles, and the true amateur of glass considers the grisailles to be as well worth study as the legendary windows.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878