basso-rilievo

Thorwaldsen, Crawford excelled in _basso-rilievo_, and was a remarkable pictorial sculptor.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

The plates of embossed and chiseled bronze which encased the body of the chariot are figured with admirably-worked subjects in basso-rilievo, many of them relating to the "wondrous tale of Troy."

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

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 1840-1916 1913

"This basso-rilievo of a man --" personal meagreness is the first joke and the last.

Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884

It is invisible from without: but you open a wooden gate, and quickly find yourself within a small quadrangle, having three of its sides covered with basso-rilievo figures in plaster.

A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

"frisette" shingling it, a sallow neck with a necklace of gold beads, a black dress too rusty for recent grief and contours in basso-rilievo, left the table prematurely, and was reported to have been very virulent about what I said.

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

"frisette" shingling it, a sallow neck with a necklace of gold beads, a black dress too rusty for recent grief and contours in basso-rilievo, left the table prematurely, and was reported to have been very virulent about what I said.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851