It is ornamented with bas-reliefs and statues symbolical of the triumph of Christian religion.
The pedestal is ornamented with bas-reliefs representing the Holy Family, the twelve apostles, St. Christopher, and two other saints.
Later, when fiefs had become almost everywhere hereditary, the custom of requiring reliefs still survived.
When the heirs pass out of the condition of wardship, their lords shall not impose upon them any reliefs for their fiefs, for the profits of wardship shall be reckoned in place of the relief.
His paintings have the truth to nature, the delicately modulated outline, and the facile grace of the most perfect bass-reliefs or frescos.
That the serenity of satisfied existence is an end in itself, and that death in the plenitude of vigor is desirable, the reliefs of Pheidias and the AEginetan marbles teach us.
It is not our task to discuss this question at length, nor to decide if at first these reliefs were obtained on wood or metal.
Wood could not have resisted the force of the press; the reliefs would have been crushed, the borders rubbed and broken.
The bas-reliefs sculptured by Collin for that of the Hohenhauser family, and those he prepared for his own, may be reckoned among his masterpieces.
It was strongly fortified by Augustus, and remains of inscriptions and bas-reliefs are built into the wall of the ancient church of St. Apollinaria, occupying the site of a temple of Saturn.
The series of bas-reliefs on the outer shrine of the Casa di Loretto, by Sansovino, and others of the greatest sculptors of the beginning of the sixteenth century.
The series of bas-reliefs round the choir at Milan: seventeen subjects.
The beautiful series of bas-reliefs on the shrine in Or-San-Michele, at Florence.
Item: to see that El Gobbo carves the reliefs for the altar this year, and that he has sufficient marble, and if more is needed, send to Venice or Carrara.
The bass-reliefs and frescoes of incipient Italian art, the pavement of the Sienese Cathedral, the Palazzo della Ragione at Padua, bear traces of the percolation through all social strata of this literature.
The tomb of Cino in the Duomo at Pistoja, with its Gothic canopies and the bass-reliefs which represent a Doctor of Laws lecturing to men of all ranks and ages at their desks beneath his professorial chair, is a fine contemporary monument.
In reading these scenes, we must summon to our memory Luca della Robbia's bass-reliefs or the realistic groups of the Lombard Sacri Monti.
What, you have had the money for the statue and the bas-reliefs for Marshal Montcornet's monument, and you have not paid them yet?
The bas-reliefs are allowed to pass muster, simply to allow of the most perfidious praise of his talent as a decorative artist, and to give the greater emphasis to the statement that serious art is quite out of his reach!
Figures andreliefs on the arch represent important events in Napoleon's campaigns.
On the pedestal are reliefs which represent the uniforms and weapons of the conquered armies.
Here are the walls of the Plutei, with reliefs representing the life of Trajan, the grand arch of Septimus Severus, the columns of the Temple of Saturn.
A number of reliefs and images adorn the arches of each of the five doorways of the main entrance.
The glories of the baptistery are many, but perhaps the most appealing of the external decorations are the reliefs of the bronze door, which Michael Angelo so greatly admired.
St Lawrence has two figures, Adam and Eve, on its chief doorway; and some Scriptural reliefs adorn the entrance.
In the Acropolis Museum is a collection of treasures, portions of bas-reliefs and statuary rescued from the ruins of the old buildings.
Benvenuto Cellini's design for "Perseus" is in one of the rooms, and there are reliefs by Della Robbia.
What highreliefs in square panels, or bas-reliefs in long and narrow strips?
Down below, unseen in the photograph, is a row of statues in niches, and two horizontal bands of bas-reliefs of sacred and legendary subject.
The Parthenon had all of these: a horizontal band along the top of each wall of the naos filled with bas-reliefs; high reliefs in the metopes, statues in both pediments.
Every part of the wall-surface is occupied with painting in neutral colors, which painting is in some cases reinforced by reliefs in plaster.
The style here recalls that of the tamer reliefs set up by the first Sapor, but is less pleasing.
Besides remains of buildings, they comprise a number of bas-reliefs and rock inscriptions, some of which were beyond a doubt set up by Sapor I.
Coupled, however, with the reliefs to which they are appended, they do more.
The Saseanian reliefs need not on the whole shrink from a comparison with those of the Achaemenian Persians.
These reliefs consist of two classes of works, colossal figures and hunting-pieces.
It may be doubted whether, among all the reliefs of the Sassanians, there is one which is so entirely devoid of artistic merit as this coarse and dull production.
The other similar reliefs to which reference has been made exist, respectively, at Nakhsh-i-Eustam and at Firuzabad.
The bas-reliefs of the Sassanians are extremely numerous, and though generally rude, and sometimes even grotesque, are not without a certain amount of merit.
Nearly the same countenance meets us in the sculptures of Artaxerxes, the son of Babek, of Sapor, and of their successors, with which we are familiar from the bas-reliefs of Darius Hystapis and Xerxes.
We drove to the Place Martroi to see the large equestrian statue of Joan by Foyatier, with reliefs by Vital Dubray.
On analyzing separately specimens taken from the bas-reliefs of the pedestal of this column, from the shaft, and from the capital, it was found that the first contained only six per cent.
Workshop of Antonio Rossellino During the Renaissance, a great number of charming reliefs in stucco and plaster by great sculptors, or in their style, were used for the decoration of the home or of wayside shrines.
Through Assyria they formed the termination of all the walls surrounding the towns, as shown on bas reliefs from Nimrud and elsewhere.
The relief may not project at all from the original surface of the material, as in the sunken reliefs of the Egyptians, and may be nearly flat, as in the Panathenaic procession of the Parthenon.
Trophies of arms and bas-reliefs represented on one side, the other that of Marengo.
This monument was then almost completed, with the exception of a few bas-reliefs which were still to be put in position.
The small case of gems is worth looking into; it contains some fragments not unlike the Portland vase, white reliefs on a blue ground.
The bas-reliefs represent historical subjects of the two pontificates.
The smaller reliefs represent scenes from the life of the Emperor Sigismund--his coronation, the council of Florence, and his entry into Rome.
The reliefs which refer to Trajan can be easily distinguished from those of Constantine (which are very bad) owing to their superior style and the subjects represented.
Reliefs of figures representing provinces; and reliefs of military trophies, recently found in the Piazza di Pietra.
The Porta Capena is represented twice in thereliefs of Trajan built on to the Arch of Constantine.
This is the tree shown on the reliefs of the monument of Marcus Aurelius.
Bas-reliefs from the tomb of the Aterii, representing a temple, with a crane moved by a tread-wheel for hoisting stones.
The Colonna Bellica, surmounted by a statue of Mars, with low reliefs round the column.
One of the most curious houses in France, Rouen's Hôtel du Bourgtherould, now a bank near the Old Market, is decorated exteriorly by reliefs of the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
Pierre Bontemps fashioned the bas-reliefs that celebrate the wars in Italy; he and other masters made the priants and gisants.
On its walls are some small funereal bas-reliefs erected by the cathedral canons.
There is a connection between certain of the small bas-reliefs and the large statues standing above them.
The triglyphs, for instance, represent the ends of the beams upon which the rafters rested, while the bas-reliefs between took the place of the votive offerings which in the primitive temples were placed in the open spaces between the beams.
The interiors were also appropriate for any amount of artistic ornament in bas-reliefs or figures that could be lavished upon them.
The small lozenge reliefs to R and L of the portal are also interesting.
By the next window, lion and bull, somewhat recalling remote Assyrian influence; with numerous small reliefs of the best age, which should be carefully studied.
The angel on the step is characteristically Ferrarese, as are also the reliefs and architecture.
Compare all these reliefs with one another, and notice their origin as given on the labels.
The reliefs from the temple of Assos in Mysia show an early stage in the evolution of Asiatic Greek art.
Orders were received that night that the 63rd Division would carry on the advance as advance guard to the XXII Corps, and the necessary reliefs were carried out.
There was therefore no divisional reserve, nor could any reliefs be arranged for the troops who had been fighting.
Battalions then engaged in a series of side-stepping reliefs to the right until, on the 25th, the right of the division was on the Arras-Cambrai road.
During the night of the 30th November reliefs took place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reliefs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
