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bas-relief, bass-relief|ˌbɑːsrɪˈliːf, -æ-, ˌbɑː-rɪˈliːf|
Forms: 7–8 basse relieve, base relief, bas-relieve, 8–9 bass-relief, bas-relief.
[a. F. bas-relief, ad. It. basso-rilievo, low relief. Cf. basso-relievo.]
1. Low relief; sculpture or carved work in which the figures project less than one half of their true proportions from the surface on which they are carved.
1696Phillips, Base Relief..emboss'd work. 1706Basso Relievo. Bass or Low Relief..when the work is low, flat, or but a little raised. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Wks. 1721 III. 192 Upon the Frontispiece..In bas-relieve the Story was impress'd, Of Lazarus and Dives. 1755Johnson, Bass-relief. 1843Prescott Mexico iv. i. (1864) 205 Two statues of that monarch..cut in bas-relief in the porphyry.
attrib.1884Harper's Mag. Feb. 350/1 The lithic forms must give place to a more bass-relief treatment.
2. concr. A sculpture or carving in low relief.
1667Oldenburg in Phil. Trans. II. 420 Excellent Pictures and Basse Relieves. 1762H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) II. 58 The basrelief..of James I. on horseback. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. I. 196 Bas-reliefs the figures of which almost step and struggle out of the marble. |