alto-relievos

The surfaces of many of them are covered with alto-relievos of beaten silver -- a circumstance which traces back their origin to imperial times, distinguishing them, at the same time, from the bas-relief ornamentations of the acme of Greek art.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

Broken tablets, retaining a few letters of the epitaphs of the dead; mutilated statues and alto-relievos; drums and capitals of pillars; a hand or a foot, or a fold of marble drapery, -- every form and variety of sculpture, the mere crumbs that had fallen from a profuse feast of artistic beauty, which nobody considers it worth while to pick up, lie mouldering among the grass.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

Here are three round alto-relievos by Jean Maillevin.

I. Gringoire Has Several Bright Ideas in Succession in the Rue des Bernardins. Book X 1917

Connecticut, a series of alto-relievos, prominent among which was an altar picture representing the Child Christ disputing with the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

First, he may notice those alto-relievos, known as the

How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

Croce, which is hallowed ground: the Annonciata, celebrated for the frescos of Andrea del Sarto; and the Carmine, which pleased me by the light elegance of its architecture, and its fine alto-relievos in white marble.

The Diary of an Ennuyée 1827