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  • In southern France is the Venus of Laussel which is carved in basrelief in a rock shelter.

    An Agnostic Goes to Synagogue: A Rosh HaShana Post Abigail Nussbaum 2005

  • Her charcoal eyes were large and luminous, above a basrelief nose and delicate mouth.

    Last Lullaby Denise Hamilton 2004

  • Her charcoal eyes were large and luminous, above a basrelief nose and delicate mouth.

    Last Lullaby Denise Hamilton 2004

  • Egyptian priestess of the thirteenth dynasty occupied a sarcophagus upon the top of which rested a basrelief found in one of the shrines of the

    Fire-Tongue Sax Rohmer 1921

  • [Footnote: The specialist in architecture and related subjects is referred to E. Williams Jackson's report to the A.I.A., for details of these basrelief photographs.]

    The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life Homer Eon Flint 1908

  • Cathedral porch were still supported on featureless porphyry lions worn smooth by generations of loungers; and above the octagonal baptistery ran a fantastic basrelief wherein the spirals of the vine framed an allegory of men and monsters symbolising, in their mysterious conflicts, the ever-recurring Manicheism of the middle ages.

    The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899

  • Uahábra, a good specimen of Saïtic art; a column of the temple, covered with high reliefs, which represented a procession of bald-headed priests holding canopi in their hands; a capital, carved with papyrus leaves and lotus flowers; and a fragment of an Egyptian basrelief in red granite, with traces of polychromy.

    Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

  • The Neapolitan Museum contains a little basrelief representing

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866

  • He studied the basrelief of Phædra and Hippolytus, which may still be seen upon the tomb of Countess Beatrice in the

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866

  • Louvre gives him the attributes of youthful Herakles; a basrelief of somewhat doubtful genuineness in the Villa Albani exhibits him with

    Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866

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