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. |