"Alto-relievo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... figure and child recumbent, also elaborately sculptured in black marble, adorn the opposite niche, and under them, in alto-relievo, are several figures in religious habits. Another effigies of a knight, but much defaced, lies on the ground-floor of the choir—the whole of which was cleaned out and put in order by the present Marquis of Bute ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 • Various |
