rilievo

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• Thorwaldsen, Crawford excelled in _basso-rilievo_, and was a remarkable pictorial sculptor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
• 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. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
• For all I know Ayers has relief sculptures of their likenesses in alto-rilievo style over the portal of his seminar room, and I don’t doubt for a minute that he’s a terrific classroom teacher). April « 2007 « Bill Ayers
• 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. Michael Angelo Buonarroti
• 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_. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
• 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. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
• I shall engrave it in _alto-rilievo, _ make the words with pebbles on the turf just above high-water mark. Foul Play
• A lady, no doubt Adelaide herself, appears in _alto rilievo_ on the paddle-box. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
• Also included are such possible sources as Byzantine ivories, reliefs on Roman clay lamps and, most intriguingly of all, an example of the Roman Arretine ware that Vasari claimed as a source for rilievo schiacciato.
• 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. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876