half-relief


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Noun 1. [画像:half-relief - a sculptural relief between low relief and high relief]half-relief - a sculptural relief between low relief and high relief
relievo, rilievo, sculptural relief, embossment, relief - sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background
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While the idea has washed back out into the ocean of my "one day" to-do-list, the frustration that kept it afloat has since been redirected to EDSA, spurning half-relief that mural initiatives have begun to materialize, and still leaving me wholly perturbed at how much more positive of an impact they could be having.
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Last duly, an expressive half-relief of the Death of the Virgin sold at Sotheby's London for 529,250 [pounds sterling] on an estimate of 60,000 [pounds sterling]-80,000 [pounds sterling] (Fig.
Collectors' focus: wood carving flourished in Southern Germany in the late 15th century onwards, resulting in exquisitely crafted devotional sculptures. Today, these figures and reliefs may be found for as little as 5,000 [pounds sterling], though the best examples command high prices
This half-relief carved in walnut depicts the Death of the Virgin as recorded in Jacobus de Voragine's highly popular Golden Legend, compiled around 1260.
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