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

The music room to the left of the foyer has parquet flooring, leaded-glass windows and a floor-to-ceiling mirror surrounded with gilded bas-relief sculptures that are repeated in plaques above the indoor fishpond.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2022

Nearby, they found a stela, its wide, flat face covered with bas-relief figures.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann