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Relievo

noun
1.
Sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background.  Synonyms: embossment, relief, rilievo, sculptural relief.



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basso relievo
mezzo-relievo


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"Relievo" Quotes from Famous Books



... me more idea than touch or taste of the manner in which sight and hearing probably discharge their functions. Touch seems to reside in the object touched, because there is a contact of surfaces. In smell there is no notion of relievo, and odour seems to reside not in the object smelt, but in the organ. Since I smell a tree at a distance, it is comprehensible to me that a person sees it without touching it. I am not puzzled over the fact that he receives it as an image on his retina without relievo, since my smell ...
— The World I Live In • Helen Keller
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... out in high relievo beyond the rest. The first is a change in the internal representation of this country, by enlarging our number of constituents. The second is an addition to our representatives, by new American members of Parliament. I pass over here all considerations how far such a system will ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
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... All of bronze it is, with shimenawa of bronze above it, and a brazen tablet inscribed with characters declaring: 'This is the Palace of the Goddess of Enoshima.' About the bases of the ponderous pillars are strange designs in relievo, eddyings of waves with tortoises struggling in the flow. This is really the gate of the city, facing the shrine of Benten by the land approach; but it is only the third torii of the imposing series through Katase: we did not see the others, ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn
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Words linked to "Relievo" :   mezzo-rilievo, sculpture, basso rilievo, high relief, low relief, alto rilievo, bas relief, half-relief


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