Bas Relief
The relief is a type of sculpture or modeling , which can be painted.
Its uniqueness is not to present a low relief, the subject represented only weakly did stain the bottom. There remains committed to the waist. A depth effect can be created by a simulated perspective, the decreasing size of characters or background elements.
We're talking about half the round or high relief if some relief from the background.
They can be isolated and be part of medallions, hollow, adorn the lintels, columns, pilasters, or architectural element, to identify a building or room in a large frieze for example.
Techniques medal or cameo use a very discreet relief (which is more akin to engraving), often a few tenths of a millimeter thick only.
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The first bas-relief carvings are extensive on the rocks.
Bas-reliefs were then decorated facades, ceilings, grottos, furniture, chests or other objects.
They are decorative, abstract or descriptive (ex-voto, scenes, commemoration, etc.). They are found on many monuments and places of worship.
In European religious art, the bas-relief is an architectural feature of the Romanesque period, but the frieze of Panathenaic carved by Phidias was a relief already famous more than 2000 years before present. It was moved from the Parthenon of Athens in a museum.
Bas-relief Indian boudhique influenced by Hellenistic art.
Madonna and child.
Young woman with the dove.
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