Sentence examples for delicate relief from inspiring English sources

The sculptural decoration is in varying styles, the best of which is an extraordinarily low and delicate relief that gives an almost pictorial quality.

Two others are covered with delicate relief representations of birds and fish surrounded by flowers and vegetation, executed in a style influenced by Islāmic art.

Still extant at Rome are the severe yet delicate reliefs of the Ara Pacis ("Altar of Peace"), depicting a religious procession in which the national leaders are taking part; there are also scenes from the Roman mythology.

Delicate "L&T" relief panels flank the entrance, and Roman-type screens with delicate cresting marked the show windows.

The action and power of the figures foretell the artist's later interests much more than does the Madonna of the Stairs (c. 1491), a delicate low relief that reflects recent fashions among such Florentine sculptors as Desiderio da Settignano.

This exhibition brings together an array of African hair ornaments made with wood, beads, copper wire and ivory — some of them embellished with delicate bas relief carvings.

Subsequent owners have often effaced the delicate wall reliefs and sold the gilded custom furniture.

The architects of Palenque designed graceful temple pyramids and "palaces" with mansard-type roofs, embellished with delicate stucco reliefs of rulers, gods, and ceremonies.

Especially vulnerable is the exquisite little temple of Banteay Srei, with its filigree of delicate bas reliefs, already marred, like all the other temples, by vandals and looters.

Then take your treat on a stroll to the nearby showroom of Lucia Volentieri, a Tuscan artist whose varied oeuvre includes iron sculptures, pastel-hued watercolors and delicate bas-relief ceramics.

Her delicate earthenware reliefs in wild colors recall the 18th-century porcelain rooms of European royalty -- except when you look closely, you might see the Campbell Soup kids brandishing a safety razor among the rococo flowers and vines, or the Pillsbury Doughboy tucked inside an ornate doorway.