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Sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background
Answer for the clue "Sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background ", 7 letters:
relievo
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background [syn: relief , rilievo , embossment , sculptural relief ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Relievo \Re*lie"vo\ (r?-l?"v?), n. [It. rilievo.] See Relief , n., 5.
Usage examples of relievo.
There is still a little relievo employed in the fresco background, but not nearly so much as in the church of Sta.
Venus or Fortune smote them to a relievo distinguishing one from another.
A leaf or two gives a haut relievo, but more is deadly poison, I am told.
The column of Arcadius, which represents in basso relievo his victories, or those of his father Theodosius, is still extant at Constantinople.
Clear heads, sir, for pictures, statues, busts, relievos, basso relievos, tablets, monuments, mausoleums.
For, after certain gripings, the wind and vapours issuing forth, having first, by their turbulence and convulsions within, caused an earthquake in man's little world, distorted the mouth, bloated the cheeks, and gave the eyes a terrible kind of relievo.