bas-relief

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20:57 May 10, 2010
English to Slovak translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Additional field(s): History, Archaeology
English term or phrase: bas-relief
Definition from About.com:
Bas-relief sculpture is stone sculpture made by chipping away at a slab of rock to make a picture that stands out. It is also called low relief sculpture (bas being the French for 'low') and is contrasted with high relief sculpture where the image stands out further from the surface. The Egyptians, Persians, Greeks and many others have used bas-relief.

Example sentence(s):
  • Great importance is attached to outer and inner dressing of artistic expressive means, bass-relief picturing Maecenas having contributed to the construction, the life-trees, angels, apostles, Christ and St. Astvadsasin become the inseparable part of those complexes, interwoven with architectural patterns and devices. armenians.com
  • There is a famous mosaic in Urhoy, which depicts a royal banquet dated 278 A.D. The similarities between it and the earlier Assyrian bass relief of the victory banquet in the palace of the King Ashurbanipal 668-630 B.C. in Nineveh are striking, which proves that the art and traditions in Urhoy were the continuity of the ancient Assyrian ones. cavemanart.com
  • On the Mexican feroher before alluded to, and which is most elaborately carved in bass-relief on a massive piece of polygonous granite, constituting a portion of a cyclopean wall, the cross is enclosed within the ring, and accompanying it are four tassel-like ornaments, graved equally well. fullbooks.com
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5 +1basreliéf
Kristina Karabova


  

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basreliéf


Definition from Wikipedia:
je reliéf, pri ktorom námet vystupuje iba málo nad základnú plochu.

Example sentence(s):
  • Vyrezáva poličky, varechy a rôzne náradie do domácnosti, ale aj hudobné nástroje (píšťalky, fujary), od roku 1985 sa venuje technike basreliéf. - národnoé osvetové centrum  
  • Jeden basreliéf v Tell el-Amarna znázorňuje Achenatóna s kráľovnou Nefritete, ako sa klaňajú slnečnému kruhu. - prometheus  

Explanation:
tiež sa používa aj nízky reliéf
Kristina Karabova
Slovakia
Local time: 16:02
Native speaker of: Slovak

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Yes  Filip Molcanyi
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