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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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It required nothing but the substitution of wood for stone and of relievo for intaglio to give that art the form it now has.
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.
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.
Some gravestones occurred, finely painted and gilded, as the Turkish manner is, with characters in relievo.
Over this colonnade stood a third, in the base of which was represented, in relievo, a party of hunting animals of every kind.

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