Sentence examples for shallow relief from inspiring English sources
Eric Gill's 1918 stations, carved in shallow relief for Westminster Cathedral in London, pointed in a new direction.
Decoration on much Korean porcelain of the period is either incised (foliage being a frequent motif), combed, or molded in shallow relief.
Standing about a foot high, and abstract but for a hairline cut in shallow relief at the top, it has the swan-neck profile of a milliner's mannequin.
One example is Donatello's delicate use of precise central-point perspective when carving in very shallow relief, which was first seen in 1417, in a scene of St George fighting the dragon.
His works of the late 1420s show him able to make space increasingly intelligible in a series of clearly receding planes; using shallow relief, Ghiberti depicted volumes of bodies and deep architectural spaces.
The shallow relief on these works is little more than drawing rendered partly in the round; but the sculptor soon learned how, even in the shallowest relief, to indicate depth by overlapping figures and by bringing details up into the front plane.
The latest Goodwins are bulky patchworks — shallow reliefs, really — made mostly of colorfully painted, laminated cardboard.
The next section of the show unfolds the emergence of the greatest Italian sculptor of the 15th century, who was to go on to create the first marble shallow reliefs employing scientific perspective (of which he was a pioneer), the first bronze equestrian statue (of the condottiere Gattamelata) and the first life-sized bronze male nude (of David) since antiquity.
The Central and Perseus elevations provide shallower relief in the north, and there are fishing banks and shallows to the southeast.
In 1858, the Mint tried to alleviate the breakage problem using a new version of the cent with a shallower relief.
Shallow-relief wood carving is the most widespread medium for this style, which combines human and animal forms with abstract motifs such as scrolls, chevrons (V-shaped patterns), circles, and meanders.
