How To Use Rilievo In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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The moon's idealizing glamour had left no trace of the uncouthness of the place which the daylight revealed; the little log house, the great overhanging chestnut-oaks, the jagged precipice before the door, the vague outlines of the distant ranges, all suffused with a magic sheen, might have seemed a stupendous alto-rilievo in silver repoussè.
In the Tennessee mountains,
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Thorwaldsen, Crawford excelled in _basso-rilievo_, and was a remarkable pictorial sculptor.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
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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
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This (p. xxiii) portrait presents an _alto-rilievo_ which is well adapted for medals only; it is conceived in the spirit of the French school, which has always attached great importance to the truthful rendering of flesh.
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
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Also included are such possible sources as Byzantine ivories, reliefs on Roman clay lamps and, most intriguingly of all, an example of the Roman Arretine ware that Vasari claimed as a source for rilievo schiacciato.
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A lady, no doubt Adelaide herself, appears in _alto rilievo_ on the paddle-box.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
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I shall engrave it in _alto-rilievo, _ make the words with pebbles on the turf just above high-water mark.
Foul Play
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There are two principal kinds of relief: Low Relief (bas-relief, basso-rilievo), the figures of which have only a limited thickness, and in which the appearance of solidity is achieved by the effect of light and shade; and High Relief (grand-relief, alto-rilievo), in which the figures sometimes appear entirely in the round.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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One of the soft, but unpleasant missiles just alluded to, flew by the master's head one morning, and flattened itself against the wall, where it adhered in the form of a convex mass in _alto rilievo_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
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The degree of relief is alto-rilievo, like those on the Roman sarcophagi and the pulpits of the Pisani; in shape it is almost as high as it is long; this unusual proportion is similar to some of the divisions of the bronze reliefs in the Donatello pulpits at San Lorenzo.
Michael Angelo Buonarroti
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For all I know Ayers has relief sculptures of their likenesses in alto-rilievo style over the portal of his seminar room, and I don’t doubt for a minute that he’s a terrific classroom teacher).
April « 2007 « Bill Ayers
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This (p. xxiii) portrait presents an _alto-rilievo_ which is well adapted for medals only; it is conceived in the spirit of the French school, which has always attached great importance to the truthful rendering of flesh.
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
