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Basso rilievo

noun

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

Words linked to "Basso rilievo" : embossment, relief, rilievo, sculptural relief, relievo, high relief