ETYM French bas-relief; bas low + relief raised work, relever to raise: cf. Italian bassorilievo.
1. A relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; SYN. low relief, basso relievo.
2. A relief in which the figures project only slightly from the surrounding plane surface; no figures are undercut; SYN. basso relievo, basso rilievo, low relief.
See relief.
Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bassrelief and basso-rilievo.
Carving in low relief, i.e., in which figures stand out less than half their proportion from background. bas relief. + prikaži više