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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:
rilievo
Word definitions for rilievo in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rilievo \Ri*lie"vo\, n.[It. See Relief .] (Sculp. & Arch.) Same as Relief , n., 5.
WordNet
Word definitions in 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)]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context art English) A relief.
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.