Bas Relief

So far none of this is new to art history, and there have also been some very careful analyses of the ways some stripes go over others, and how Mondrian built his paintings into a kind of woven bas-relief. ❋ James Elkins (2010)

From what I've seen of the other homes built by Wright in this period in L.A., this one is not as grand and expansive, but it still contains many of his signature touches and a few unique features like the front doors and a bas-relief design over the grand fireplace. ❋ One For The Table (2011)

The Ionic order is more elegant and matronly – think Boticelli's Venus – with often unfluted columns, scrolled capitals, friezes that are sometimes adorned with elaborately sculpted bas-relief and dentils – a row of small blocks – below the cornices. ❋ Unknown (2011)

For countless residents and tourists who meander by it on their daily rounds, it does what Robert Lowell said of Augustus Saint-Gaudens's bas-relief to Col. ❋ Willard Spiegelman (2011)

To complete the illusion in the eyes of the drunken man, the planks are topped with wooden Ionic capitals, nailed on, and in, I may say, bas-relief. ❋ Unknown (2010)

While visiting a museum in Mosul, he finds nine papyrus scrolls tucked in the belly of a bas-relief sculpture: they have been perfectly preserved for more than two thousand years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Arp's painted-wood bas-relief "La Femme-amphore" (1929), in which a small figurative form, like a kernel, floats through the womb-like bowl of an amphora, speaks to Brancusi's curled-up ovoid "The Newborn (Version I)" (1920). ❋ Lance Esplund (2011)

There are portraits of individuals and of groups, but some of Ms. Lenz's most interesting pictures, all untitled, are of surrogate human beings: a doll in one, a mannequin in another, a tilting bas-relief portrait medallion in a third, and also a delightful narrow-waisted paper doll suspended for some unknown purpose in a store window. ❋ William Meyers (2010)

I mean look at the detail of the bas-relief that is carved into a column. ❋ Will (2009)

The organ from "Saint-Roch, Paris IV" 2009 is shown in a 60-by-50-inch print that does justice to its grandeur, the steel pipes, the gilded putto with a viol, the bas-relief angel playing a bagpipe on one side of the supporting balcony and the angel with a keyboard on the other side, and the ornate clock keeping time high on top of it all. ❋ William Meyers (2011)

This clears the way for that giant bas-relief of a horned goat head inscribed in an inverted pentagon that I always wanted to see overlooking the Grand Canyon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One learns that sculpture went from the three-dimensional to a kind of bas-relief because Christian doctrine disdained natural representation. ❋ Melik Kaylan (2012)

"Pape Moe Mysterious Water," an oak bas-relief, carved by Gauguin in 1894, has not been seen by the American public since the 1920s. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Another piece, "Musique Barbare (Barbaric Music)," an 1893 work in pencil, ink and watercolor, has never been publicly displayed in the United States, while "Pape Moe (Mysterious Water)," an oak bas-relief carved by Gauguin in 1894, has not been seen by the American public since the 1920s. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The way that the windows are perfectly placed, or the archways that are positioned down the bas-relief corridors frame and crop the most interesting symmetrical shots from your very own visual space in your head creates this very clean, simple lucid feeling as you walk through. ❋ Will (2009)

Each time, there were new details to notice, like the panels depicting the primeval hunters in bas-relief above each alcove. ❋ Jay Kirk (2010)