bas-relief

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Bas-relief sculptures by Joanna Blake depict contrabands escaping from slavery to seek sanctuary in Alexandria and barefoot children learning to read at a freedmen’s school.

From Washington Times • Feb. 4, 2017

Perhaps an Artemis Anaitis was here worshipped.1627.Proposed by Tölken, Ueber das Bas-relief, &c. p.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

In Rome he was now frequently called the "Patriarch of Bas-relief."

From A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture by Waters, Clara Erskine Clement

Chemistry and mathematics, agriculture and chromatics, Music, painting, sculpture—she knew all the tricks of speech; Bas-relief and chiaroscuro, and at last the Indian Bureau— She discussed it quite serenely, as she trifled with a peach.

From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Sanborn, Kate

Homer's Epos, it is remarked, is like a Bas-relief sculpture: it does not conclude, but merely ceases.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas