Grisaille, the Glossary
Grisaille (or; lit, from gris 'grey') is a painting executed entirely in shades of grey or of another neutral greyish colour.[1]
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83 relations: Acrylic paint, Adriaen van de Venne, Airbrush, Aizuri-e, Alessandro Magnasco, Amsterdam, Andrea del Castagno, Andrea Mantegna, Anglo-Saxon art, Annunciation, Anthony van Dyck, Antonio Verrio, Atelier, Brooklyn Museum, Chinoiserie, Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (Bruegel), Cistercians, Drawing, Early Netherlandish painting, Engraving, Five Sisters window, Frans Francken the Younger, Fresco, Gabriel, Ghent Altarpiece, Giotto, Guernica (Picasso), Hampton Court Palace, Hendrick Goltzius, Hieronymus Bosch, Historical Museum, Frankfurt, Hugo Bastidas, Illuminated manuscript, Iran, Jacob de Wit, Jacques Vigouroux Duplessis, Jacques-Louis David, Jan van Eyck, Jan van Goyen, Jean Pucelle, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jean-Baptiste Pillement, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Limner, Low Countries, Maarten van Heemskerck, Master of Frankfurt, Matthew Paris, Miniature model (gaming), Model, ... Expand index (33 more) »
- Fresco painting
- Vitreous enamel
Acrylic paint
Acrylic paint is a fast-drying paint made of pigment suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion and plasticizers, silicone oils, defoamers, stabilizers, or metal soaps.
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Adriaen van de Venne
Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (1589 – 12 November 1662), was a versatile Dutch Golden Age painter of allegories, genre subjects, and portraits, as well as a miniaturist, book illustrator, designer of political satires, and versifier.
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Airbrush
An airbrush is a small, air-operated tool that atomizes and sprays various media, most often paint, but also ink, dye, and foundation. Grisaille and airbrush are artistic techniques and painting techniques.
Aizuri-e
The term aizuri-e (Japanese: 藍摺絵 "blue printed picture") usually refers to Japanese woodblock prints that are printed entirely or predominantly in blue.
Alessandro Magnasco
Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa.
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
Andrea del Castagno
Andrea del Castagno or Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla (– 19 August 1457) was an Italian Renaissance painter in Florence, influenced chiefly by Masaccio and Giotto di Bondone.
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Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Mantegna (September 13, 1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini.
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Anglo-Saxon art
Anglo-Saxon art covers art produced within the Anglo-Saxon period of English history, beginning with the Migration period style that the Anglo-Saxons brought with them from the continent in the 5th century, and ending in 1066 with the Norman Conquest of England, whose sophisticated art was influential in much of northern Europe.
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Annunciation
The Annunciation (from the Latin annuntiatio; also referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation of Our Lady, or the Annunciation of the Lord; Ο Ευαγγελισμός της Θεοτόκου) is, according to the Gospel of Luke, the announcement made by the archangel Gabriel to Mary that she would conceive and bear a son through a virgin birth and become the mother of Jesus Christ, the Christian Messiah and Son of God, marking the Incarnation.
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Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (i; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.
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Antonio Verrio
Antonio Verrio (c. 1636 – 15 June 1707) was an Italian painter.
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Atelier
An atelier is the private workshop or studio of a professional artist in the fine or decorative arts or an architect, where a principal master and a number of assistants, students, and apprentices can work together producing fine art or visual art released under the master's name or supervision. Grisaille and atelier are painting techniques.
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
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Chinoiserie
(loanword from French chinoiserie, from chinois, "Chinese") is the European interpretation and imitation of Chinese and other Sinosphere artistic traditions, especially in the decorative arts, garden design, architecture, literature, theatre, and music. Grisaille and chinoiserie are decorative arts.
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (Bruegel)
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery is a small panel painting in grisaille (near monochrome) by the Netherlandish Renaissance printmaker and painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
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Cistercians
The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule.
Drawing
Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface.
Early Netherlandish painting
Early Netherlandish painting is the body of work by artists active in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance period, once known as the Flemish Primitives.
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Engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin. Grisaille and Engraving are artistic techniques.
Five Sisters window
York Minster's Five Sisters window contains the largest expanse of 13th century grisaille glass in the world. Grisaille and Five Sisters window are glass art.
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Frans Francken the Younger
Frans Francken the Younger (1581, Antwerp – 6 May 1642, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter and the best-known and most prolific member of the large Francken family of artists.
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Fresco
Fresco (or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Grisaille and fresco are fresco painting and painting techniques.
Gabriel
In the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baháʼí Faith), Gabriel is an archangel with the power to announce God's will to mankind.
Ghent Altarpiece
The Ghent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (De aanbidding van het Lam Gods), is a very large and complex 15th-century polyptych altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium.
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Giotto
Giotto di Bondone (– January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages.
Guernica (Picasso)
Guernica is a large 1937 oil painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
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Hampton Court Palace
Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames.
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Hendrick Goltzius
Hendrick Goltzius, or Hendrik, (January or February 1558 – 1 January 1617) was a German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter.
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Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (born Jheronimus van Aken; – 9 August 1516) was a Dutch painter from Brabant.
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Historical Museum, Frankfurt
The Historical Museum (German: Historisches Museum) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, was founded in 1878, and includes cultural and historical objects relating to the history of Frankfurt and Germany.
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Hugo Bastidas
Hugo Bastidas (born August 18, 1955) is an American painter known for black and white paintings that imitate the effect of grisaille and often resemble black and white photographs.
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Illuminated manuscript
An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
Jacob de Wit
Jacob de Wit (19 December 1695 – 12 November 1754) was a Dutch artist and interior decorator who painted many religious scenes.
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Jacques Vigouroux Duplessis
Jacques Vigouroux Duplessis, also Jacques Vigoureux-Duplessis (c.1680–1732) was a French painter.
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Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.
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Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck (– 9 July 1441) was a Flemish painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the most significant representatives of Early Northern Renaissance art.
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Jan van Goyen
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter.
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Jean Pucelle
Jean Pucelle (c. 1300 – 1355; active c. 1320–1350) was a Parisian Gothic-era manuscript illuminator who excelled in the invention of drolleries as well as traditional iconography.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter.
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Jean-Baptiste Pillement
Jean-Baptiste Pillement (Lyon, 24 May 1728 – Lyon, 26 April 1808) was a French painter and designer, known for his exquisite and delicate landscapes, but whose importance lies primarily in the engravings done after his drawings, and their influence in spreading the Rococo style and particularly the taste for chinoiserie throughout Europe.
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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (officially known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was named in 1964 as a memorial to assassinated President John F.
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Limner
A limner is an illuminator of manuscripts, or more generally, a painter of ornamental decoration.
Low Countries
The Low Countries (de Lage Landen; les Pays-Bas), historically also known as the Netherlands (de Nederlanden), is a coastal lowland region in Northwestern Europe forming the lower basin of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta and consisting today of the three modern "Benelux" countries: Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (Nederland, which is singular).
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Maarten van Heemskerck
Maarten van Heemskerck or Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen (1 June 1498 – 1 October 1574) was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem.
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Master of Frankfurt
The Master of Frankfurt (1460–c. 1533) was a Flemish Renaissance painter active in Antwerp between about 1480 and 1520.
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Matthew Paris
Matthew Paris, also known as Matthew of Paris (lit; 1200 – 1259), was an English Benedictine monk, chronicler, artist in illuminated manuscripts, and cartographer who was based at St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire. He authored a number of historical works, many of which he scribed and illuminated himself, typically in drawings partly coloured with watercolour washes, sometimes called "tinted drawings".
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Miniature model (gaming)
In miniature wargaming, players enact simulated battles using scale models called miniature models, which can be anywhere from 2 to 54 mm in height, to represent warriors, vehicles, artillery, buildings, and terrain.
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Model
A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system.
Monochrome painting
Monochromatic painting has played a significant role in modern and contemporary Western visual art, originating with the early 20th-century European avant-gardes.
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Niccolò da Tolentino
Niccolò Mauruzzi (or Mauruzi), best known as Niccolò da Tolentino (– March 20, 1435) was an Italian condottiero.
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Odalisque
An odalisque (odalık) was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan.
Oil painting
Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder.
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
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Painting
Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). Grisaille and Painting are painting techniques.
Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat.
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Photographic print toning
In photography, toning is a method of altering the color of black-and-white photographs.
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Picasso's Blue Period
The Blue Period (Período Azul) comprises the works produced by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso between 1901 and 1904.
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Picasso's Rose Period
The Rose Period (Spanish: Período rosa) comprises the works produced by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso between 1904 and 1906.
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (– 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genre painting); he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings.
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Polidoro da Caravaggio
Polidoro Caldara, usually known as Polidoro da Caravaggio (– 1543) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, "arguably the most gifted and certainly the least conventional of Raphael's pupils", who was best known for his now-vanished paintings on the facades of Roman houses.
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Relief
Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material.
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.
Robert Campin
Robert Campin (c. 1375 – 26 April 1444), now usually identified with the Master of Flémalle (earlier the Master of the Merode Triptych, before the discovery of three other similar panels), was a master painter who, along with Jan van Eyck, initiated the development of Early Netherlandish painting, a key development in the early Northern Renaissance.
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Roman art
The art of Ancient Rome, and the territories of its Republic and later Empire, includes architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work.
Scrovegni Chapel
The Scrovegni Chapel (Cappella degli Scrovegni), also known as the Arena Chapel, is a small church, adjacent to the Augustinian monastery, the Monastero degli Eremitani in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy.
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Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.
Silver staining
In pathology, silver staining is the use of silver to selectively alter the appearance of a target in microscopy of histological sections; in temperature gradient gel electrophoresis; and in polyacrylamide gels.
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Silver sulfide
Silver sulfide is an inorganic compound with the formula.
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Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel (Sacellum Sixtinum; Cappella Sistina) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City.
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Stained glass
Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Grisaille and Stained glass are decorative arts and glass art.
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Steinway & Sons
Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway, is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway).
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Titanium dioxide
Titanium dioxide, also known as titanium(IV) oxide or titania, is the inorganic compound derived from titanium with the chemical formula.
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Triptych
A triptych is a work of art (usually a panel painting) that is divided into three sections, or three carved panels that are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open. Grisaille and triptych are artistic techniques.
Trompe-l'œil
paren) is an artistic term for the highly realistic optical illusion of three-dimensional space and objects on a two-dimensional surface. Trompe l'œil, which is most often associated with painting, tricks the viewer into perceiving painted objects or spaces as real. Forced perspective is a related illusion in architecture. Grisaille and Trompe-l'œil are artistic techniques, decorative arts and painting techniques.
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Underpainting
In art, an underpainting is an initial layer of paint applied to a ground, which serves as a base for subsequent layers of paint. Grisaille and underpainting are painting techniques.
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Valmer Castle
The Château de Valmer is a complex located northeast of Chançay, a French commune in the Indre-et-Loire department of the Centre-Val de Loire region.
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Vitreous enamel
Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between. Grisaille and Vitreous enamel are decorative arts and glass art.
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Walters Art Museum
Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon section of Baltimore, Maryland.
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Watercolor painting
Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also aquarelle (from Italian diminutive of Latin aqua 'water'), is a painting method"Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to the Stone Age when early ancestors combined earth and charcoal with water to create the first wet-on-dry picture on a cave wall." in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution. Grisaille and watercolor painting are painting techniques.
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Wet-on-wet
Wet-on-wet, or alla prima (Italian, meaning at first attempt), direct painting or au premier coup, is a painting technique in which layers of wet paint are applied to previously administered layers of wet paint. Grisaille and wet-on-wet are painting techniques.
Zenith
The zenith is an imaginary point directly "above" a particular location, on the celestial sphere.
See also
Fresco painting
- Buon fresco
- Conservation and restoration of Pompeian frescoes
- Conservation and restoration of frescos
- Elmelunde Master
- Fall of the Giants (Romano)
- Fresco
- Fresco-secco
- Gambier Parry process
- Giornata
- Giovanni Battista Arnaud
- Grisaille
- Illusionistic ceiling painting
- Mineral painting
- St Peter and St Paul's Church, Pickering
- Union Master
Vitreous enamel
- Ando Cloisonné Company
- Basse-taille
- Benty Grange hanging bowl
- Byzantine enamel
- Champlevé
- Chasse (casket)
- Cloisonné
- En résille
- Enamelled glass
- Fabergé & Cie
- Grisaille
- Guilloché
- Hanging bowl
- House of Fabergé
- Industrial porcelain enamel
- Khalili Collection of Enamels of the World
- Kin'unken
- Le Creuset
- Limoges enamel
- Mosan art
- Mīnākārī
- Plique-à-jour
- Republic Stamping and Enameling
- Ronde-bosse
- Staub (cookware)
- Treasury of St Mark's Basilica
- Vitreous enamel
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grisaille
Also known as Brunaille, En brunaille, En verdaille, Grisaile, Grisaille painting, Grissaile, Verdaille.
, Monochrome painting, Niccolò da Tolentino, Odalisque, Oil painting, Pablo Picasso, Painting, Peter Paul Rubens, Photographic print toning, Picasso's Blue Period, Picasso's Rose Period, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Relief, Rembrandt, Robert Campin, Roman art, Scrovegni Chapel, Sculpture, Silver staining, Silver sulfide, Sistine Chapel, Stained glass, Steinway & Sons, Titanium dioxide, Triptych, Trompe-l'œil, Underpainting, Valmer Castle, Vitreous enamel, Walters Art Museum, Watercolor painting, Wet-on-wet, Zenith.