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Definition of Reliefs
1. relief [n] - See also: relief
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reliefs
Literary usage of Reliefs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The vessel was then removed from the mould and the reliefs touched up by hand (in
the finer ... The reliefs thus produced are often very graceful in design, ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1862)
"Burdick, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers, with a detachment of Seventh Connecticut
Volunteers, in three reliefs. By order of A signal-officer at battery ..."
3. Luca Della Robbia by Allan Marquand (1914)
"The Campanile reliefs as a whole set forth the arts and sciences ... It is not
easy to correlate the subjects of these reliefs with those already ..."
4. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"The reader will notice in the plan two places marked " sculptured bas-reliefs."
In these places are carved tablets set in the wall, as at Palenque, and, ..."
5. The Reminiscences of Augustus Saint-Gaudens by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Homer Saint-Gaudens (1913)
"VII WORK FOR LA FARGE 1877-1878 The French Salon in a Rut—The St. Thomas reliefs—The
Protestant in Art—Details Across the Ocean—Will H. Low—Painting the ..."
6. American Journal of Archaeology by Archaeological Institute of America (1891)
"It is the object of this paper to adduce further reasons for the ascription of
these remains to the reliefs mentioned by Pausanias, and it is hoped that the ..."
7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1845)
"Heretofore our remarks have referred to bas- reliefs only. ... Thirty of the best
preserved blocks containing bas-reliefs have also been removed, ..."
8. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"His best work is the series of marble reliefs executed, in conjunction with
Pisano, for the famous tomb of St. Dominic in the church of that Saint at ..."
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