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Meanings of low relief in English
A sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut.
Synonyms
Examples for "bas relief"
Examples for "bas relief"
1
Another curl of bas relief offered itself and I reached down-
2
The walls and ceiling are exquisitely frescoed, and ornamented with bas reliefs in plaster.
1
Here Noah drew out of his pocket a sort of basso relievo carved in pine.
2
It is a very magnificent edifice, adorned on all sides with trophies and battles in basso relievo.
1
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 low relief in English
1
A child's face blurred and delicately weathered; features in innocent, low relief.
2
The frieze is in low relief, the figures scarcely starting from the background.
3
The spandrels between the arches are diapered in low relief with leaf ornament.
4
On this the modeller made out his design in low relief.
5
Some examples are in rather low relief, portraits approximating certain painters.
6
The man represented in low relief is, of course, Aristion himself.
7
What is the precise value of this system of sculpture, this low relief?
8
The sides and roofs of them were carved in low relief, and curiously painted.
9
By the entrances are great vases on which in low relief are Bacchanalian scenes.
10
The outside doors are to be bronze, with figures on them in low relief.
11
Yet another image, cut in low relief, has arms innumerable.
12
All had metal stoppers, and were covered with peculiar-looking symbols moulded in low relief.
13
In the wall at the end whirled two enormous dragon shapes, cut in low relief.
14
The wall around the lower pool carries a playful frieze of animals in low relief.
15
The frieze in low relief is colorful and decorative.
16
The spandrels are made in very vigorous low relief.
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Low relief through the time
Low relief across language varieties
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