Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
bas-relief .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
bas-relief .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut
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Examples
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Thorwaldsen, Crawford excelled in _basso-rilievo_, and was a remarkable pictorial sculptor.
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The plates of embossed and chiseled bronze which encased the body of the chariot are figured with admirably-worked subjects in basso-rilievo, many of them relating to the "wondrous tale of Troy."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various
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There are two principal kinds of relief: Low Relief (bas-relief, basso-rilievo), the figures of which have only a limited thickness, and in which the appearance of solidity is achieved by the effect of light and shade; and High Relief (grand-relief, alto-rilievo), in which the figures sometimes appear entirely in the round.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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"This basso-rilievo of a man --" personal meagreness is the first joke and the last.
Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884
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It is invisible from without: but you open a wooden gate, and quickly find yourself within a small quadrangle, having three of its sides covered with basso-rilievo figures in plaster.
A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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"frisette" shingling it, a sallow neck with a necklace of gold beads, a black dress too rusty for recent grief and contours in basso-rilievo, left the table prematurely, and was reported to have been very virulent about what I said.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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"frisette" shingling it, a sallow neck with a necklace of gold beads, a black dress too rusty for recent grief and contours in basso-rilievo, left the table prematurely, and was reported to have been very virulent about what I said.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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