Meaning of bas-relief in English
- In bas-relief, the background was left untouched and only the figures were coloured.
- Note bas-reliefs over doorway, and tablet with figured eagle below parapet.
- The frieze and pediment were red and decorated with white bas-reliefs.
- The lower part is panelled, each panel having two heads carved in bas-relief.
- The walls were faced with bas-reliefs representing scenes in his life done in massive silver.
Examples of bas-relief
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It is decorated with a stunning bas-relief frieze, 40 feet long, carved into the rock and featuring 14 animals, mainly bison and horses.
From Washington Post
Brilliantly illuminated, in addition to the permanent decorations, a life-sized jockey in bronze bas-relief and numerous coaching pictures, was the work of the florist.
From Project Gutenberg
He allows himself to believe that the once living model of his treasured bas-relief has again come to life.
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Beneath these tender lines is a bas-relief of as vicious-looking a cur as ever evaded the dog-tax.
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It was carved as a bas-relief, showing the schoolhouse in the foreground in high relief, with the wooded hills beyond.
From Project Gutenberg
And on the background was there not something in bas-relief?
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There were ruins there--a broken-down wall, a dry well and a bit of eroded bas-relief lying on its side.
From Project Gutenberg
To-day we are constantly working in bas-relief, and that is why our products are so cold and meager.
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It is ornamented with white opaque figures in bas-relief upon a dark blue transparent ground.
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The wax is also made white for small things--medals, portraits, minute scenes, and other objects in bas-relief.
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This likeness her father instantly recognized, and, hastening to bring his clay, he filled in the sketch and thus produced the first portrait in bas-relief!
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Have the bas-relief if you like, or one good thing for frontispiece.
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The stately obelisks which guarded its entrance ways and the bas-relief panels which formed its outer facade, were objects of universal interest.
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I approached and saw, as if graven in bas-relief upon the white surface, the figure of a gigantic cat.
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They are of marble radiantly white; and two especially beautiful are loaded with exquisite bas-relief.
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