NOUN
- a sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut
How To Use basso rilievo In A Sentence
- For, as Flaxman remarks, the styles of different hands are sufficiently evident in the alto and basso rilievo. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
- He alternated, with infinite relish, between the extreme phases of his art, -- a delicate Peri and a majestic Colossus, an extensive array of basso rilievo figures, a sublime ideal of manhood and an exquisite image of infancy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
