How To Use Relievo In A Sentence
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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
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I produced a basso-relievo in silver, carved with a group of foliages and several figures of youths, and other beautiful grotesques.
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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
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It particularly affected me when I saw the destruction made to get down the basso-relievos on the walls of the frieze.
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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
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pictures" would probably be called basso-relievos.
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
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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
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The relievo was his favourite performance, and very justly so.
In the South Seas
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have lately seen a new alto-relievo model of Scotland brought out by Messrs William Martin & Co.,. of 67 West Nile Street, Glasgow.
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At the further end is the mezzo-relievo of Hercules and the Centaurs, a subject which was suggested by Politian, and executed by Michael Angelo with so much ability as to astonish all who beheld so near an approach to the antique.
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The snow reprints it, as it were, in clear white type alto-relievo.
Walden
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The wall is carved with the technique of three-layer alto-relievo.
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There is, too, a sarcophagus representing, in mezzo-relievo (half relief) the tragedy of Niobe's daughters.
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Products consist of Continental, Chinese, modern, animation series etc... Carving correctly and carefully, we filled the signages industry's gap in the field of basso-relievo signages.
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And if we are not obedient to the gods, there is a danger that we shall be split up again and go about in basso-relievo, like the profile figures having only half a nose which are sculptured on monuments, and that we shall be like tallies.
Thispain Diary Entry
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Baronet, kneeling in a square beard opposite his wife in a ruff: a very fat lady, the Dame Rebecca Clavering, in alto-relievo, is borne up to Heaven by two little blue-veined angels, who seem to have a severe task — and so forth.
The History of Pendennis
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It is built of Portland stone, and is adorned with a beautiful portico in the centre, consisting of four Doric columns supporting an enriched entablature, decorated with a group of figures in alto-relievo, representing Hibernia and Britannia presenting emblems of peace and liberty.
Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met
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‘All You Need is Wood’ ended with an unexpected mezzo-relievo.
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The Trent Tile Company made a specialty of dull-finished or ‘Trent finished’ tiles in alto-relievo, which are treated by the sand-blast process after being glazed.
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The scenic front is not pictorially decorated but is composed of a metal coating and a bronze alto-relievo sculpture located in a black recess.
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Baronet, kneeling in a square beard opposite his wife in a ruff: a very fat lady, the Dame Rebecca Clavering, in alto-relievo, is borne up to Heaven by two little blue-veined angels, who seem to have a severe task — and so forth.
The History of Pendennis
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The top of the bluestone doorframe is a vast transversal stone upon which the building's name is engraved, along with other fancy basso-relievo serving as decoration.
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In the effeminate Antinous, an alto-relievo of whitest marble, we admire the prototype of that arrow-stricken youth, the comely St Sebastian.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
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There is a big granite basso-relievo in the frontispiece of the memorial which is 41.8 metres long, 5.4 metres high.
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The cedar-wood was beautifully embellished with figures in relievo, representing clusters of foliage, open flowers, cherubims, and palm trees.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Perhaps the artist has bee brought in to polychrome a plaster relievo for an architectural decoration, and it is some third party sculptors studio.
Easel on Rails
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There is a description of what it was, in an Italian manuscript, by which it appears to have been a beautiful edifice of two stories, adorned with columns and trophies in alto-relievo, with a statue of
Travels through France and Italy
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The doors, surrounded by a delicate architrave, are divided into six equal panels each of which bears in mezzo-relievo (half relief) the obverse or reverse of some coin of ancient Greece.
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The second is designed to reproduce sculptures, as the first, of dimensions equaling the model, but of the kind called alto-relievo.
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The reredos contains two modern designs in alto-relievo.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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The snow reprints it, as it were, in clear white type alto-relievo.
Walden
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All the canals have bridges at stated distances; these bridges are bordered with balustrades of white marble sculptured in basso-relievo.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Majesty; and an alto-relievo representing an ascending spirit attended by a guardian angel with the inscription --
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 495, June 25, 1831
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The old shabby church showed, as usual, its quaint extent of roofage and the relievo skeleton on one gable, still blackened with the fire of thirty years ago.
Lay Morals
