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Mezzo-relievo

noun
1.
A sculptural relief between low relief and high relief.  Synonyms: half-relief, mezzo-rilievo.





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"Mezzo-relievo" Quotes from Famous Books



... Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury, Lord High Treasurer of England (d. 1612). The effigy is in robes, with official staff in hand. Beneath the slab is a skeleton in white marble. Note also in this chapel mezzo-relievo effigy to William Curll, Esq. (d. 1617), with inscription, almost illegible, to the effect that he was a most Christian knight who died in ...
— Hertfordshire • Herbert W Tompkins
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... plan; the sides and ends are formed of cork sheets, marked with a lead pencil to represent the blocks of stone; and ruined and broken parts imitated, by pricking the cork with a blunt penknife or needle. The frieze, representing the battle between the Centaurs and Lapithae and the metopes in mezzo-relievo, containing a mixture of the labours of Hercules and Theseus, should be drawn upon the sheets of cork according to scale, and coloured with a little lampblack and raw sienna, to represent the subject intended, if the scale is small; but ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
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