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What is a relievo?

What is a relievo? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (art) relief (surface carving)
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In one relievo a splendidly caparisoned state elephant flings its feet in imitation of the dancing girl near by.
But there was one spot thrown into alto relievo by the sombre drapery of woe.
Replicas of Vincent Van Gogh's famous paintings to be presented at the exclusive regional launch of the newly created Van Gogh Museum Relievo exhibition.
Long rows of windows ranged away, separated by panoplies, in relievo, and by busts on small pedestals.
Some gravestones occurred, finely painted and gilded, as the Turkish manner is, with characters in relievo.
Basso relievo, low relief or bas-relief, is used when the scale of projection is very much less than that of the other dimensions and there is no undercutting at all.

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