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A low relief carving of a Viking ship Carving tools and a mallet. In wood carving relief carving is a type in which figures or patterns are carved in a flat panel of wood; the same term is also used for carving in stone, ivory carving and various other materials. The figures project only slightly from the background rather than standing freely.
The composition of groups of figures in reliefs and on pediments combined complexity and harmony in a way that had a permanent influence on Western art. Relief could be very high indeed, as in the Parthenon illustration below, where most of the leg of the warrior is completely detached from the background, as were the missing parts; relief this ...
Donatello's Saint George Freeing the Princess of 1417, the first known stiacciato relief. Stiacciato (Tuscan) or schiacciato (Italian for "pressed" or "flattened out") is a technique where a sculptor creates a very shallow relief sculpture with carving only millimetres deep. [1] The rilievo stiacciato is primarily associated with Donatello ...
The relief is very low and the carving detailed, but large rooms were lined with continuous compositions on slabs around 7 feet (2.1 m) high. The Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal and military Lachish reliefs , both 7th century BC and in the British Museum , are some of the best known.
They were carved on practically square Pentelic marble slabs: 1.20 meters high for a variable width, but averaging 1.25 meters. Originally, the block of marble measured 35 centimeters thick: the sculptures were made in high relief, even in very high relief at the edge of the round-bump, standing out about 25 centimeters.
Stela H, a high-relief in-the-round sculpture from Copán in Honduras Maya stelae (singular stela ) are monuments that were fashioned by the Maya civilization of ancient Mesoamerica . They consist of tall, sculpted stone shafts and are often associated with low circular stones referred to as altars, although their actual function is uncertain ...
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Pedimental sculpture is a form of architectural sculpture designed for installation in the tympanum, the space enclosed by the architectural element called the pediment. Originally a feature of Ancient Greek architecture , pedimental sculpture started as a means to decorate a pediment in its simplest form: a low triangle, like a gable , above ...