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Bas-relief

Bas-relief Meaning & Definition
Bas-relief Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bas-relief?

[n] a sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut

Synonyms | Synonyms for Bas-relief: basso relievo | basso rilievo | low relief

Related Terms | Find terms related to Bas-relief: anaglyph | bellying | boldness | boss | bulging | cameo | cameo glass | cavo-rilievo | cut glass | embossment | eminence | excrescence | excrescency | extrusion | gibbosity | gibbousness | glyph | glyptograph | high relief | intaglio | intaglio rilevato | intaglio rilievo | low relief | mask | medal | medallion | plaquette | projection | prominence | protrusion | protuberance | protuberancy | relief | relievo | salience | salient | sculptured glass | tuberosity | tuberousness

See Also | embossment | relief | relievo | rilievo | sculptural relief

Bas-relief In Webster's Dictionary

\Bas`-re*lief"\, n. [F. bas-relief; bas law + relief raised work, relever to raise: cf. It. bassorilievo.] Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also {bassrelief} and {basso-rilievo}. See {Alto-rilievo}.

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