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Definition of Mezzo-relievo
1. Noun. A sculptural relief between low relief and high relief.
Generic synonyms: Embossment, Relief, Relievo, Rilievo, Sculptural Relief
Definition of Mezzo-relievo
1. Noun. (alternative form of mezzo-rilievo) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mezzo-relievo
Literary usage of Mezzo-relievo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works of the Camden Society by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1889)
"tioned was destroyed ; but I observed at the east end of the church a very
particular mezzo-relievo set in the wall, cut within the surface of the stone ..."
2. Handbook of Archæology: Egyptian--Greek--Etruscan--Roman by Hodder Michael Westropp (1878)
"The term alto- relievo is used when the figures seem almost entirely detached
from the background; mezzo-relievo when the figure projects from the ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
"Whoever would desire a knowledge of the original causes of the differences of
alto, basso, and mezzo relievo, should reud the admirable treatise on the ..."
4. An endeavour to classify the sepulchral remains in Northamptonshire, or a by Charles Henry Hartshorne (1840)
"Mezzo-Relievo. And both may be flatted. When Alto-Relievo is so, ... Mezzo-Relievo
so flatted makes what is constantly and properly called Basso-Relievo, ..."
5. An Endeavor to Classify the Sepulchral Remains in Northamptonshire, Or, a by Charles Henry Hartshorne (1840)
"Mezzo-Relievo. And both may be flatted. When Alto-Relievo is so, ... Mezzo-Relievo
so flatted makes what is constantly and properly called Basso-Relievo, ..."
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