bas-relief

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Man Ray also built ingenious collages, bas-relief constructions and elegant chess sets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

As The Times reported in 1989, the giant bas-relief figures on the venue’s exterior are of the Maya god Huitzilopochtli seated on a symbolic earth monster.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2025

They include an imposing obelisk outside Rome's Olympic stadium that bears his name, and a bas-relief of Mussolini in the modernist Eur district that the fascists built to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their march.

From Reuters • Oct. 26, 2022

Thomas’s installation continues inside, where the light through periwinkle-blue windows throws Head’s bleak tally into bas-relief.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021

Besides architecture, the predominant art form of Mesopotamia was bas-relief sculpture.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell