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Basso rilievo

noun
1.
A sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut.  Synonyms: bas relief, basso relievo, low relief.  Antonym: high relief.





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"Basso rilievo" Quotes from Famous Books



... I think it was an eleemosynary smile, for my pleasantry seems to me a particularly basso rilievo, as I look upon it in cold blood. But conversation at the best is only a thin sprinkling of occasional felicities set in platitudes and commonplaces. I never heard people talk like the characters in the "School for Scandal,"—I ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)


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