bas-reliefn.
/ˌbɑːsrɪˈliːf//ˌbasrɪˈliːf//ˌbɑːrɪˈliːf/ 1. Low relief; sculpture or carved work in which the figures project less than one half of their true proportions from the surface on which they are carved.
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bas-relief1696
low relief1713
basso-relievo1780
stiacciato1862
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > [adjective] > executed or ornamented in relief > in low-relief
anaglyphic1656
anaglyptic1656
in low relief1667
bas-relief1696
anaglyphical1859
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Base Relief..emboss'd work.
1706 Basso Relievo. Bass or Low Relief..when the work is low, flat, or but a little raised.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 192 Upon the Frontispiece..In bas-relieve the Story was impress'd, Of Lazarus and Dives.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Bass-relief.
1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico II. iv. i. 121 Two statues of that monarch..cut in bas-relief in the porphyry.
2. concrete. A sculpture or carving in low relief.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > [noun] > relief > low-relief > article executed in
anaglyph1651
basso-relievoc1660
bas-relief1667
low relief1713
1667 H. Oldenburg in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 420 Excellent Pictures and Basse Relieves.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. i. 35 The basrelief..of James I. on horseback.
1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. I. 196 Bas-reliefs the figures of which almost step and struggle out of the marble.
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