rilievo
IPA: rˈɪɫjʌvoʊ
noun
- (art) A relief.
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Examples of "rilievo" in Sentences
- A lady, no doubt Adelaide herself, appears in _alto rilievo_ on the paddle-box.
- Thorwaldsen, Crawford excelled in _basso-rilievo_, and was a remarkable pictorial sculptor.
- These temples seem to rest upon a fantastic base in which are carved in alto rilievo all the gods of
- For, as Flaxman remarks, the styles of different hands are sufficiently evident in the alto and basso rilievo.
- 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 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."
- 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_.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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