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Meanings of bas relief in English
A sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut.
Synonyms
Examples for "low relief"
Examples for "low relief"
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A child's face blurred and delicately weathered; features in innocent, low relief.
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The frieze is in low relief, the figures scarcely starting from the background.
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The spandrels between the arches are diapered in low relief with leaf ornament.
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On this the modeller made out his design in low relief.
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Some examples are in rather low relief, portraits approximating certain painters.
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Here Noah drew out of his pocket a sort of basso relievo carved in pine.
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It is a very magnificent edifice, adorned on all sides with trophies and battles in basso relievo.
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I think it was an eleemosynary smile, for my pleasantry seems to me a particularly basso rilievo, as I look upon it in cold blood.
Usage of bas relief in English
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Another curl of bas relief offered itself and I reached down-
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The minster at Freyburg has a grotesque bas relief over its main portal, representing the Judgment.
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The following is a translation from a bas relief by Professor Pinches of a passage detailing Jehu's tribute:
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My hands groped after something to hold and caught on one of the bas relief scroll effects I'd spotted earlier.
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One large bas relief, however, forms an exception, and from its legend we learn the name of Khanni, son of Takhkhi-khîkhutur.
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The walls and ceiling are exquisitely frescoed, and ornamented with bas reliefs in plaster.
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Bas Relief of one of the VESSELS frequenting the Ports of JAVA in the Middle Ages.
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Ask him, is he fond of bas reliefs?
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Bas Relief of the Gods (Frieze Of The Parthenon).
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The altar of the chapel is adorned with bas reliefs representing the conquest and surrender of Granada.
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On the four sides were large square gaps showing the places where the destroyed bas reliefs had been.
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The external walls of these buildings were of gray sandstone covered from foundation to summit with bas reliefs.
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The pedestal, which is also of bronze, contains bas reliefs, representing scenes from Faust, Wilhelm Meister and Egmont.
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The figure is fourteen feet high and stands on a pedestal of bronze, with bas reliefs on the four sides.