Lexicographical Neighbors of Rilievi
Literary usage of Rilievi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Ancient Art by Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1872)
"Among all the kings and celebrated men of authentic history, Alexander is the
only one who obtained the privilege of being represented in rilievi of which ..."
2. London Encyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"The Persians were also partial to the use of bassi rilievi, as in the walls of
... The bassi rilievi used by the ancients were often formed of baked clay ..."
3. The Idler in Italy by Marguerite Blessington (1839)
"It is ornamented with finely executed bassi-rilievi, representing the attributes
of Bacchus, which rather unfit it for its present use, which is that of a ..."
4. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"... sculpture with the two much finer rilievi referable to the time of Trajan,
whose good deeds they commemorate,* we have now three antique presentments of ..."
5. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"ut<•;! in bassi-rilievi : on the front of a sarcophagus of later Roman date ;
and in the beautiful relief known as " Apotheosis of Homer," of the upper ..."
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