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• The inclusion of Agostino di Duccio's limpidly linear Madonna and Child relief from the V & A reminds us that not all rilievo schiacciato looks like Donatello.
• I never before saw nearly so distinct a cloud-picture, or rather sculpture; for it came out in alto-rilievo on the body of the cloud. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
• It is one of the most instructive examples of the intersection of Quattrocentro stylistic objectives (ornato, rilievo, realism), and adaptations from the antique, in particular Roman relief sculpture of the 2nd and 3d centuries C.E.
• These temples seem to rest upon a fantastic base in which are carved in alto rilievo all the gods of Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
• In 1233 Niccola was in Lucca; the alto-rilievo of the Deposition over the side door of the cathedral may be of this date. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
• A woman with a creamy voice, and finished in _alto rilievo_, would be a variety in the boarding-house, -- a little more marrow and a little less sinew than our landlady and her daughter and the bombazine-clad female, all of whom are of the turkey-drumstick style of organization. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
• The west front is indeed its chief beauty of exterior attraction; and it was once rendered doubly interesting by a profusion of alto-rilievo statues, which _disappeared_ during the commotions of the revolution. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One
• The Egyptians also were perfectly acquainted with working in cameo (anaglyph) and rilievo, as may be seen in the cavo rilievo of the finest of their hieroglyphs. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• The relation between rilievo and linear perspective is particularly relevant here, because it directly impinges on Wohl's thesis that Renaissance artists and writers saw paintings above all in terms of decorated surfaces.
• The plates of embossed and chiseled bronze which encased the body of the chariot are figured with admirably-worked subjects in basso-rilievo, many of them relating to the "wondrous tale of Troy. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876