Crossword clues for rilievo
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rilievo \Ri*lie"vo\, n.[It. See Relief.] (Sculp. & Arch.) Same as Relief, n., 5.
Wiktionary
n. (context art English) A relief.
WordNet
n. sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background [syn: relief, relievo, embossment, sculptural relief]
[also: rilievi (pl)]
Usage examples of "rilievo".
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.
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.
The crowd increased every moment, and, like water that rises above its level, began to mount along the walls, to swell about the pillars, to cover the entablatures, the cornices, all the salient points of the architecture, all the rilievos of the sculpture.