low relief

n.

Sculptural relief that projects very little from the background. Also called bas-relief, basso-relievo.

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A carving, embossing, or casting moderately protruded from the background plane; low relief.

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Bas-relief is a sculptural technique from ancient Greece. Sculptures on walls were carved in low relief with the foremost parts flat. The relief was picked out by shadows. Photographic ‘bas-relief’ images are made by sandwiching a negative and a positive transparency slightly out of register and printing the combination (Fig. 1a and b).

Fig. 1a


Fig. 1b

— Graham Saxby

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A technique of sculpture in which subjects are defined by being slightly raised from a flat background. Also known as low-relief.

(bah ruh-leef)

A kind of carving or sculpture in which the figures are raised a few inches from a flat background to give a three-dimensional effect. The term is French for “low relief.”

Dansk (Danish)
n. - bas-relief

Nederlands (Dutch)
bas-reliëf

Français (French)
n. - (Archit) bas-relief, frise

Deutsch (German)
n. - Basrelief, Flachrelief

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ανάγλυφο

Italiano (Italian)
bassorilievo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - baixo-relevo (m)

Русский (Russian)
барельеф

Español (Spanish)
n. - bajo relieve, bajorrelieve

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - basrelief

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
浅浮雕

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 淺浮雕

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 얕은 양각

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 浅浮彫り

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نحت أو حفر بارز‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תגליף נמוך‬

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