A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 50
inds were also painted, verycommonly. SCULPTURE IN RELIEF. 27 6. Intaglio—invented by the famous ancient sculptors inhard stones and gems. In this the figure is cut into the stoneor metal, so that a cast taken from it, as in a seal, gives a mezzo-relieuo or even an alto-relievo. When the gem is… … Fig. 27.—Alto-relievo, One of the Metopes of the Parthenon. distance, with some under cutting; thus departing from truerelief in sculpture and approaching the pictorial form. The beauty and character of bas-relief depend much uponthe representation of outline. The projection is small in pro-portion…
Sculpture, Ancient
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