Bas-relief Synonyms

bärilēf, basrilēf
A sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. low relief
  2. basso-relievo
  3. anaglyph
  4. extrusion
  5. basso-rilievo
  6. plaquette
  7. relievo

Words Related to Bas-relief

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Bas-relief Sentence Examples

  • There is a small shrine at the spot, containing a bas-relief representing the birth of the Buddha.

  • Its most important feature is a large stucco bas-relief, occupying a central position on the back wall of the sanctuary.

  • Both pillars and cross-bars were elaborately carved in bas-relief, and most of them bore inscriptions giving either the name of the donor, or the subject of the bas-relief, or both.

  • But the Buddha is now forgotten there, and the bas relief is reverenced only for the figure of the mother, who has been turned into a tutelary deity of the place.

  • Varenus Diphilus, a freedman, a magister herculaneus, were found in situ in 1883, and in 1902 two vases of statues erected by Diphilus, as inscriptions showed, in honour of his patron, and a bas-relief of bearded Hercules entirely draped in a long tunic with a lion's skin on his shoulders.

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