GRISAILLES. - By g. is meant either a painting that imitates sculpture using only gray tones, or a first sketch in which the white of the canvas serves as the light and the shadows are rendered with a gray tint.
Used especially in decorative art, the painting called grisaille is frequently found already in 15th-century manuscripts and in stained-glass windows; in particular it served to decorate furniture in the 17th century. Renowned in this genre of art was the Dutchman E. de Witt. The range of grays is naturally very vast, and one should not believe that grisailles are therefore only in black and white, since in fact they also make use of mixtures with blue, pink, brown, and violet colors.
Ronci, Gilberto. “Grisailles.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 1171. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/grisailles.
MLA
Ronci, Gilberto. “Grisailles.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1171. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/grisailles.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_grisailles,
author = {Ronci, Gilberto},
title = {Grisailles},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {1171},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/grisailles}
}
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