relievos

It would be ridiculous in me to enter into a detail of the vast collection of marbles, basso relievos, inscriptions, urns, busts, and statues, which are placed in the upper apartments of this edifice.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

The surfaces of many of them are covered with alto-relievos of beaten silver -- a circumstance which traces back their origin to imperial times, distinguishing them, at the same time, from the bas-relief ornamentations of the acme of Greek art.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

The gray and stern arches, the hitherto colorless sky of the art temple, now take the azure hue of the heavens, while hovering cherubs look down from their cerulean depths; the relievos glow, and color defines, as it etherealizes, the works of man.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Broken tablets, retaining a few letters of the epitaphs of the dead; mutilated statues and alto-relievos; drums and capitals of pillars; a hand or a foot, or a fold of marble drapery, -- every form and variety of sculpture, the mere crumbs that had fallen from a profuse feast of artistic beauty, which nobody considers it worth while to pick up, lie mouldering among the grass.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

These defects may in some measure have arisen from the early and more frequent practice of the artist in relievos.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829 Various

He comments upon the ineffectual attempts of modern sculptors to detach drapery from the figure, to give it the appearance of flying in the air; to make different plans on the same bas-relievos; to represent the effects of perspective; to clothe in a modern dress.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

The spandrils of the tabernacle work is filled with diaper work and alto relievos which are supposed to represent some legendary history, most probably that of the virgin.

Ely Cathedral Anonymous

This composition, made with so small a proportion of water as to have it of the consistence of plastic clay, may be used to form models, busts, basso-relievos, and similar articles.

The American Housewife Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts in all the Various Branches of Cookery; and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner Anonymous

Burton describes it as the ancient classical altar, with basso-relievos on all four sides -- subjects of course evangelical; on the top an alto - relievo of symbolical flowers, roses, and passiflorae is cut to support the normal "Dobefal," or baptismal basin.

The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous

Here are three round alto-relievos by Jean Maillevin.

I. Gringoire Has Several Bright Ideas in Succession in the Rue des Bernardins. Book X 1917