On the west side of the pedestal is neatly cut in relievo the figure of a Cupid reposing his right hand on a shield containing the arms of England and France quartered, and in his left hand a rose.
The alto-relievo figures in the centre of the tympanum have a decisive and appropriate effect.
Above, is an alto-relievo subject of the slaughter of the Innocents.
Detail of marble altarpiece in alto relievo in cathedral of Fiesole, being a part of the monument of Bishop Salutati.
A marble tabernacle, decorated in mezzo-relievo and originally made for the nuns of the convent of the Murate.
La Fuega d'Attila, the largest alto-relievo in the world, the two principal figures being about 10 ft.
The twelve busts in alto-relievo surround it like a beautiful wreath.
In its central panel is an alto-relievo in ivory, with Adam and Eve on either side of the Tree of Knowledge.
Figures or patterns of a relievo nature arise during construction as a result of the intersections and other more complex relations--the bindings--of the warp and woof or of inserted or applied elements.
In that case the interlaced combination gives relievo results, characterized by wide, radiating ribs and narrow, inconspicuous, concentric lines, which cross the ribs in long steps.
They add enormously to the capacity for producing relievo effects and make it possible even to render natural forms in the round.
So far as they exhibit system at all it is identical with the relievo elaboration.
A few paragraphs may be added here in regard to reticulated fabrics of all classes of combination, as they exhibit more than usually interesting relievo phenomena and have a decided bearing upon the growth of ornament.
It is capable of advancing alone into new fields, producing patterns and designs complex in arrangement and varied in hue, and that, too, without altering the simple, monotonous succession of relievo characters.
It is a sort of checker, an emphasized presentation of the relievo pattern shown in Fig.
The relievo is said to have been produced by pinching the inside of the cup, so as to make the representation of a face on the outside.
A figure in the same dress was placed in an attitude of supplication at the horse’s knees, and a head in alto-relievo just appeared between the hinder feet.
I am in possession of a ring, which in place of a stone has a metal basso-relievo representation of Nelson (half-bust).
Subsequently, I was employed to erect two pulpits in the choir of St. Maria del Fiore, and adorn them with historical figures in basso-relievo of bronze, together with varieties of other embellishments.
I produced a basso-relievo in silver, carved with a group of foliages and several figures of youths, and other beautiful grotesques.
The principal basso relievoof the high altar represents the deliverance of Turin by the intercession of the Virgin; it was observed of this Madonna that she bare a strange resemblance to the duchess of Burgundy.
We find it adopted to express the grief of a beautiful female figure on a basso-relievo formerly in the palace Valle at Rome, and preserved in the Admiranda of S.
A beautiful relievo of Adonis and his dog has been unearthed at Albano in Etruria; Fig.
Bas Relievoon the Portal of the Temple of Montmorillon in France.
Tis adorn'd with a Relievoof white Marble, in which a Woman is represented supporting the Arms of the City.
The Grand Tour says, that within four miles of Rome you see a tomb on the roadside, said to be that of Nero, with sculpture in basso-relievo at both ends.
At the other end of the corridore, there is a range of antient sepulchral stones ornamented with basso-relievo brought hither from different parts by the Pisan Fleets in the course of their expeditions.
These cavo relievo or cut-out flat patterns are as easy of execution as gouge-work to any one who has learned the latter.
Objects seen between lights and shadows will appear to have greater relievo than those which are placed wholly in the light, or wholly in shadow.
This does not happen to those shadows which are near the eye, where they will produce the greatest relievo when they are darkest.
This whole essay on relievo should be read attentively: it is so connected in all its parts that it is impossible to give its true character by either a few quotations or an at tempt at analysis.
In these celebrated compositions he attempted the union of basso-relievo with the principles of painting.
On either side an archway or portico, with relievo tablets above, representing military scenes.
A tablet topped by the figure of Fame and supported by a relievo representing Guards on the march; below it a trophy, and the escutcheon of the corps.
There lay the lyre she had given to her brother; her eye fell on the relievoof the marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia, and on the figure of a woman who was offering a jewel to the bride.
The figures of a Dionysiac procession, forming the frieze, looked down upon the feasters--a fine relievo that had been designed and modelled for Ptolemy Soter by the sculptor Bryaxis, and then executed in ivory and gold.
The other competitor, Ludovico Caselli, was already hinting it about that the basso-relievo was not made by me, and that Professor Cambi worked upon it.
I began to model the basso-relievo for the competition in the studio Cambi, and my intaglio work I did in the little studio or stable of the Palazzo Borghese.
Within these years, among other works of less importance, he successively executed a basso-relievo of the Baptism of our Lord, a portrait statue of Pius IX.
On the front of each are represented in basso-relievo figures of animals, which, for want of a better name, we have called sphinxes.
In the middle, is a rather reduced copy of the secondrelievo which I have described (that of the King and the suppliant) except that, facing the King there is an additional personage with a hand extended holding a ring.
The two first are faced by sphinxes; the remaining parts of whose bodies are delineated in a basso-relievo on the interior surface of the portal.
Above the basso-relievo is a massive garland, supported by three boys, at equal distances; and between them are four heads of old men, as hideously grotesque as the imaginations of the sculptors could render them.
The basso-relievo of the south front represents a field of battle, strewed with the dead and wounded, and mingled with warriors on horseback and on foot.
