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Relief is the usual sculptural medium for large figure groups and narrative subjects, which are difficult to accomplish in the round, and is the typical technique used both for architectural sculpture, which is attached to buildings, and for small-scale sculpture decorating other objects, as in much pottery, metalwork and jewellery.
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 ...
Vatican Pietà, a Renaissance work by Michelangelo Buonarroti. Renaissance sculpture is understood as a process of recovery of the sculpture of classical antiquity. Sculptors found in the artistic remains and in the discoveries of sites of that bygone era the perfect inspiration for their works. They were also inspired by nature.
A relief of the Gandavyuha story from Borobudur 2nd level north wall. Gandavyuha is the story told in the final chapter of the Avatamsaka Sutra about the boy Sudhana's tireless wandering in search of the Highest Perfect Wisdom. It covers two galleries (third and fourth) and also half of the second gallery, comprising in total of 460 panels. [124]
Relief with Ashurbanipal killing a lion, c. 645–635 BC. The king shoots arrows from his chariot, while huntsmen fend off a lion behind. The royal Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal is shown on a famous group of Assyrian palace reliefs from the North Palace of Nineveh that are now displayed in room 10a of the British Museum.
The Lachish reliefs are a set of Assyrian palace reliefs narrating the story of the Assyrian victory over the kingdom of Judah during the siege of Lachish in 701 BCE. Carved between 700 and 681 BCE, as a decoration of the South-West Palace of Sennacherib in Nineveh (in modern Iraq), the relief is today in the British Museum in London, [1] and was included as item 21 in the BBC Radio 4 series A ...
"Winged genie", Nimrud c. 870 BC, with inscription running across his midriff. Part of the Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal, c. 645–635 BC. Assyrian sculpture is the sculpture of the ancient Assyrian states, especially the Neo-Assyrian Empire of 911 to 612 BC, which was centered around the city of Assur in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) which at its height, ruled over all of Mesopotamia, the Levant ...
Stele to the French 8th Infantry Regiment. One of more than half a dozen steles located on the Waterloo battlefield. A stele (/ ˈstiːli / STEE-lee), from Greek στήλη, stēlē, plural στήλαι stēlai, [Note 1] is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument. The surface of the ...