| 单词 | in intaglio |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin intaglio b. The process or art of carving or engraving in a hard material; incised carving as opposed to carving in relief; the condition or fact of being incised. Chiefly in phrase in intaglio, as opposed to in rilievo or in relief. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > [noun] graving1362 intaglio1762 stylography1840 scribing1896 1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting I. 162 Lady Mary Worsley has a head of the same King..cameo on one side and intaglia on the other. 1816 J. Dallaway Of Statuary & Sculpt. v. 298 In every period of the Grecian celebrity the art of intaglio has been cultivated as a branch of sculpture. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxi. 166 It was startling to see the evidences of a travel nearly six years old, preserved in intaglio on a material so perishable. 1857 S. Birch Hist. Anc. Pottery (1858) I. 15 Bricks were impressed with a stamp on which hieroglyphics were cut in intaglio, so as to present them in relief on the surface of the brick. 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times vii. 224 The animals..are represented, not in relief, but intaglio; not by a mound, but by an excavation. < as lemmas |
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