low relief

How To Use low relief In A Sentence

• These sills mark areas at the coast where low relief makes it possible for a glacier to spread out and thus lose its erosional power.
• Being close-grained, ivory lends itself particularly well to low relief and engraving, but it has also been used successfully for statuettes in the round, whose compositions are often dictated by the curve of the tusk itself.
• These Tuscan sculptors of the fifteenth century worked for the most part in low relief, giving even to their monumental effigies something of its depression of surface, getting into them by this means a pathetic suggestion of the wasting and etherealisation of death. The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry
• Before shops had invaded its ground-floor, and advertisements had defaced the exquisite line of carvings just above, the Rez de chaussée had seven low arcades whose pilasters and windows were carved with medallions, candelabra, and "grotesques" in low relief. The Story of Rouen
• The increasingly low relief of the anterior border with a narrow curvature of the anterior border furrow close to the anterior branches of the facial suture is certainly a gerontic feature.
• On either side of the entrance to the Wargrave columbarium are carvings of peacocks of considerable finesse, in such low relief that they are almost invisible at times; to know the artist would be instructive.
• In 1939, during her WPA years, Hurston was briefly married to a fellow relief worker, the much younger Albert W. Price III; the two rumoredly honeymooned on American Beach. Following the dust tracks: Touring Florida through the eyes of Zora Neale Hurston
• This section is followed by a smooth surface engraved with four rows of superposed arches crowned with gadroons sculpted in low relief.
• Two rows of sharply delineated feathers are finely executed in low relief with deep, precise incisions marking the details.
• The slightly gauche figure-drawing adds to the carvings' fey allure, but their chief trait is an obsession with describing drapery and water in very low relief through swathes of sinuously convoluted line.