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1. High relief, usually between 1/2" and 2" in depth. 2. Bas relief, or Low relief usually under 1/2" in depth. 3. Deep relief, usually over 2" in depth. 4. Pierced relief, where holes are carved clear through the wood. Some carvers prefer to finish their carving with a clear finish.
Relief is often classified by the degree of projection from the wall into low or bas-relief, high relief, and sometimes an intermediate mid-relief. Sunk-relief is a technique restricted to ancient Egypt .
The Feast of Herod is a bronze relief sculpture created by Donatello circa 1427. It was made for the font of the Siena Baptistery of San Giovanni in Italy. It is one of Donatello's earliest relief sculptures, and his first bronze relief. [1] The sculpture is noted for Donatello's use of perspective. [2]
The Parthenon frieze is the high-relief Pentelic marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the Parthenon 's naos . It was sculpted between c. 443 and 437 BC, [ 1] most likely under the direction of Phidias. Of the 160 meters (524 ft) of the original frieze, 128 meters (420 ft) survives—some 80 percent. [ 2]
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 ...
The sculpture work had to be done on the ground, before the metopes were put in place, at the top of the walls. The sculptors, necessarily many, surely began to work from 447 or 446 BC to complete their work before 438 BC, when the work for the roof began; 442 BC or shortly thereafter is a likely completion date.
Many of the art forms and methods used by the Romans – such as high and low relief, free-standing sculpture, bronze casting, vase art, mosaic, cameo, coin art, fine jewelry and metalwork, funerary sculpture, perspective drawing, caricature, genre and portrait painting, landscape painting, architectural sculpture, and trompe-l'œil painting ...
Contrast is created between the high relief sculpture on the ends and the low relief sculpture in the centre of the chest. [5] The details of the friezes indicate that the craftsmen were Greek, as revealed by the depictions of the human form on the West side of the chest.
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