Grisaille
Monochrome painting on Glass. Usually black repeated pattern on small quarries.
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Grisaille
a monochromatic painting (usually in shades of black and gray, to simulate stone sculpture).
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Grisaille:
A stained glass window incorporating muted tones as opposed to bright colors.
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Grisaille glazing was first favored by the Cistercian Order under St. Bernard, who found that figurative windows distracted monks from religious responsibilities.
Dante depicts Bernard as his last guide in heaven in the Divine Comedy.
" The greyish windows in which it prevails are technically described as "in grisaille." There are examples (Salisbury, Chalons, Bonlieu, Angers) of "plain glazing" in grisaille, in which the lead lines make very ingenious and beautiful pattern.
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The conscious revival of Greek classical architecture, as distinct from its later, Roman forms. At its peak in the early 19th century, its origins can be traced to the middle of the century before.GrisailleMonochrome painting, ...
Beginning in the 1270s the mystic darkness was gradually dispelled as grisaille glass-white glass decorated with designs in gray-was more often employed in conjunction with colored panels, ...
 See also: Architecture, Medieval, Ornament, Roman, Vault
  
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