low relief

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low relief

Sculptural relief that projects very little from the background. Also called bas-relief, basso-relievo.

low relief

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) another term for bas-relief

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low relief - a sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut

bas relief, basso relievo, basso rilievo

relievo, rilievo, sculptural relief, embossment, relief - sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background

alto relievo, alto rilievo, high relief - a sculptural relief in which forms extend out from the background to at least half their depth

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Using a mixture of house paint, glue, gesso, crinkled tissue paper, granite, and acrylic paints, he builds areas of low relief, which he then paints over.

Art Out of Sudan by Palmer, Victoria / African Arts

His lack of mastery of perspective and recession forced him into low relief and stark frontality.

Noble Salvage by SHONE, RICHARD / Artforum International

Anna was still a Carmelite foundation, and over the next decade-and-a-half was outfitted with a sculpted altarpiece, four huge marble wall epitaphs carved in low relief, elaborate choir stalls with wooden busts of prophets and sibyls, a pipe organ with splendid painted shutters, a brass grill by the Vischer family of Nuremberg which in the end was never installed, and finally a marble balustrade to replace the rejected grill.

Die Fuggerkapelle bei St. Anna in Augsburg by Smith, Jeffrey Chipps / Renaissance Quarterly

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