High Relief

Word HIGH RELIEF
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-- The fabulous high-relief arms of some mourners block our view of other figures 'faces. ❋ Blake Gopnik (2010)

Polychrome ceramic plates with high-relief amphibians and bronzes of real and invented creatures remind us that Arcimboldo's composite heads were once displayed in kunstkammers, along with miscellanies of man-made and natural curiosities. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2010)

The gloomy, hundred-foot-long room could easily have been the plush offices of a prosperous law firm, with its expensive carpeting, wood paneling, groupings of burgundy leather furniture, and, at the far end, an enormous William and Mary walnut desk with high-relief carvings across the front and sides. ❋ Cherry Adair (2010)

Furthermore, double-thick holders have been developed to safely accommodate high-relief ancient coins. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The thick plank door of each house was carved and painted with the totem animal of the particular family in a kind of high-relief style. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Its side plates are covered with beautiful high-relief scroll engraving, and the oil-finished stock bears flawless fine-line checkering. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The post office still displays that classic high-relief steel lettering reminiscent of Neutra. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nor was it Agoracritus, putative head of the sizable Parthenon workshop that carved tons of white Pentelic marble into numerous fully dimensional figures for the two triangular pediments; ninety-two high-relief panels, called metopes, for the frieze above the oblong structure's peripheral colonnade; and the bas-relief that wrapped like a ribbon around the exterior of Athena's inner sanctum and depicted the Panathenaic Procession (the citizenry's celebration of their divine protector's birthday). ❋ Filler, Martin (2009)

Muzeul National Brukenthal, Sibiu, Romania Relief Bust of a Youth It's all fascinating, but it's hard to get past Tullio's ­dazzling high-relief busts — two single figures, two male-female pairs — iconic demonstrations of his ability to imbue stone with tenderness and mystery. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not Alexander the Great, though he battles heroically in its high-relief friezes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the star discovery was clearly a fantastically beautiful burial chamber depicting Alexander in battle and at hunt in high-relief. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The coasts range from deserts to fertile plains to rain forest, from coral reefs to lagoons, and from high-relief, rocky shores to deeply indented estuaries and deltas. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Those reflections set the authenticity of John McCain in high-relief. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This will throw into high-relief who our friend's really are. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"I could of been a dancer myself, " she said plaintively, her fork circling the high-relief of her waffle like a disabled warplane circling a mountainous region, searching for a place to land. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1990)

You might care to argue that the Standing Liberty Quarter is beautiful, or the Saint-Gaudens high-relief twenty-dollar gold piece, but the Liberty Head Nickel? ❋ Block, Lawrence (1980)

Let them dress like the Princess of Wales and the Empress of Austria, when in the conspicuous high-relief of the coach, and the result will be that ladies, married or single, will not be subjected to the insults of which so many of them complain, and of which the papers are full after every coaching parade. ❋ Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood (N/A)

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