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Basso relievo

noun
1.
A sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut.  Synonyms: bas relief, basso rilievo, low relief.





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"Basso relievo" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Hail-mist—Torre del Greco—bright amid darkness—the mountains above it flashing here and there from their snows; but Vesuvius, it had not thinned as I have seen at Keswick, but the air so consolidated with the massy cloud curtain, that it appeared like a mountain in basso relievo, in an interminable ...
— The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 • James Gillman


Words linked to "Basso relievo" :   rilievo, bas relief, relievo, high relief, sculptural relief, relief, embossment


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