Grisaille
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Grisaille is a painting executed entirely in shades of black and grey or of another neutral greyish colour. It is particularly used in large decorative schemes in imitation of sculpture. Many grisaill
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565, 24 cm × 34 cm (9.4 in × 13.4 in)
Battesimo della gente, one of Andrea del Sarto's gray and brown grisaille frescoes in the Chiostro dello Scalzo, Florence (1511-26)
Hans Memling wing, with donor portrait in colour below grisaille Madonna imitating sculpture
Grisaille stained glass (15th century)
Chiostro dello Scalzo
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The Chiostro della Scalzo or is a cloister in Florence, Italy that originally led to a chapel once belonging to a religious company known as the Compagnia del diciplinati di San Giovanni Battista or d
View from entrance
The north and east walls
The west wall
Painted terra-cotta over the entrance