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. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Thorwaldsen, Crawford excelled in _basso-rilievo_, and was a remarkable pictorial sculptor. ❋ Various (N/A)
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." ❋ Various (N/A)
These temples seem to rest upon a fantastic base in which are carved in alto rilievo all the gods of ❋ Various (N/A)
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_. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ J. F. Loubat (N/A)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
For, as Flaxman remarks, the styles of different hands are sufficiently evident in the alto and basso rilievo. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
A lady, no doubt Adelaide herself, appears in _alto rilievo_ on the paddle-box. ❋ Various (N/A)
In 1233 Niccola was in Lucca; the alto-rilievo of the Deposition over the side door of the cathedral may be of this date. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The figures on the funeral urn, in Mezzo-rilievo, are about two feet high. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Especially valuable is a sarcophagus with a representation in mezzo-rilievo of the tragedy of the daughters of Niobe. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
There are two principal kinds of relief: Low Relief (bas-relief, basso-rilievo), the figures of which have only a limited thickness, and in which the appearance of solidity is achieved by the effect of light and shade; and High Relief (grand-relief, alto-rilievo), in which the figures sometimes appear entirely in the round. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
A bronze demi-rilievo of Assyro-Phænician workmanship would also suggest that Dagon played a prominent part in the doctrines concerning death and future life. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Pius IX in token of appreciation of the singular ability of the discourse forwarded to the cardinal a gift of a very fine Carrera amrble rilievo representing St. Paul addressing the Areopagus. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The application of brilliant color to pictorial forms cut in low relief, or outlined by deep incision with the edges of the figures delicately rounded (_intaglio rilievo_) was the most appropriate treatment possible. ❋ Unknown (1890)
The degree of relief is alto-rilievo, like those on the Roman sarcophagi and the pulpits of the Pisani; in shape it is almost as high as it is long; this unusual proportion is similar to some of the divisions of the bronze reliefs in the Donatello pulpits at San Lorenzo. ❋ Charles Holroyd (1889)
Briefly, more than forty statues went to the whole work, not counting the subjects in mezzo rilievo to be cast in bronze, all appropriate in their stories and proclaiming the acts of this great Pontiff. ❋ Charles Holroyd (1889)
The moon's idealizing glamour had left no trace of the uncouthness of the place which the daylight revealed; the little log house, the great overhanging chestnut-oaks, the jagged precipice before the door, the vague outlines of the distant ranges, all suffused with a magic sheen, might have seemed a stupendous alto-rilievo in silver repoussè. ❋ Pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock (1885)
