basreliefs

Many beautiful images: jewelry, basreliefs on monuments, paintings ...

wench77 Diary Entry wench77 2003

Of the panels and basreliefs found in 1554, some were removed to the Villa Medici and inserted in the front of the casino, on the garden side; others were transferred to Florence; those of 1859 have been placed in the vestibule of the Palazzo Fiano.

Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888

After this accident, he preferred to be represented in profile -- the profile so well known to students of Italian art on medals and basreliefs.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

The walls here are not unfrequently adorned with basreliefs of Carrara marble -- saints and madonnas very delicately wrought, as though they were love-labours of sculptors who had passed a summer on this shore.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Nothing in the range of Donatello's work surpasses these two basreliefs for harmonies of line and grouping, for choice of form, for beauty of expression, and for smoothness of surface-working.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

It may have been that the carver, recognising Luini's defective composition, and finding nothing in that master's manner adapted to the spirit of relief, had the good taste to render what was Luinesquely lovely in his female figures, and to fall back on a severer model for his basreliefs.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Nor do all the riches of the choir -- those multitudes of singing angels, those Ascensions and Assumptions, and innumerable basreliefs of gleaming marble moulded into softest wax by mastery of art -- distract our eyes from the single round medallion, not larger than a common plate, inscribed by him upon the front of the high altar.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Giovanni Pisano sculptured, in quaint statuettes and basreliefs, all the learning of the middle ages, from the Bible history down to fables of Æsop and allegories of the several months.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Beneath, are little basreliefs representing scenes from their respective lives, in the style of carved predellas on the altars of saints.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

The tale of human sin and the promise of redemption are epitomised in twelve of the sixteen basreliefs.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866