relievo

How To Use relievo In A Sentence

• Over the north gate, appear two bulls, in alto-relievo, extremely well executed, emblems which, according to the custom of the Romans, signified that the amphitheatre was erected at the expence of the people. Travels through France and Italy
• I produced a basso-relievo in silver, carved with a group of foliages and several figures of youths, and other beautiful grotesques.
• A female figure and child recumbent, also elaborately sculptured in black marble, adorn the opposite niche, and under them, in alto-relievo, are several figures in religious habits. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
• It particularly affected me when I saw the destruction made to get down the basso-relievos on the walls of the frieze.
• There was a time when the two sexes were only one, but now God has halved them, — much as the Lacedaemonians have cut up the Arcadians, — and if they do not behave themselves he will divide them again, and they will hop about with half a nose and face in basso relievo. The Symposium
• pictures" would probably be called basso-relievos. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
• Babylonish bricks; the smaller figures are much destroyed, some completely; all are in alto-relievo. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
• The relievo was his favourite performance, and very justly so. In the South Seas
• A large basso-relievo representing a lion courant, probably the arms of the city or those of its rulers, has been inserted into the inner wall above the western gate.
• On the right-hand door, Ugolin and his sons; on the left, Paolo and Francesca da Rimini.… Above the groups, Rodin has placed bas-reliefs from which protrude figures in high relief and scenes in mezzo-relievo that give his work an extraordinary sense of perspective.