bas-relief

Example Sentences

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Responding to Wright’s evocation of the four elements in the living room — and the room’s expansive view stretching to the Pacific — Silverman adds foraged clay, seaweed, salt, driftwood and shells to the glazes of his ceramics, two of which flank Wright’s famous concrete bas-relief hearth.

From Los Angeles Times

These people were the unwitting models for his bas-relief sculpture of a Black Jesus breaking bread with 12 Black apostles.

From Washington Post

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

Through various media, including drawings, film, and bas-relief, Mr. Abdessemed evokes war, displacement and devastation.

From New York Times

And yet, since 1965 a small bas-relief bearing an armed, hooded figure and the words “Ku Klux Klan” has been visible on an 11-foot-tall bronze triptych, dedicated to World War II and Korea veterans, at the entrance to West Point’s Bartlett Hall.

From Washington Post