A sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut.
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Examples for "bas relief"
Examples for "bas relief"
1Another curl of bas relief offered itself and I reached down-
2The walls and ceiling are exquisitely frescoed, and ornamented with bas reliefs in plaster.
1A child's face blurred and delicately weathered; features in innocent, low relief.
2The frieze is in low relief, the figures scarcely starting from the background.
3The spandrels between the arches are diapered in low relief with leaf ornament.
4On this the modeller made out his design in low relief.
5Some examples are in rather low relief, portraits approximating certain painters.
1I think it was an eleemosynary smile, for my pleasantry seems to me a particularly basso rilievo, as I look upon it in cold blood.
1Here Noah drew out of his pocket a sort of basso relievo carved in pine.
2It is a very magnificent edifice, adorned on all sides with trophies and battles in basso relievo.
Translations for basso relievo