bas-relief

Latvian translation: bareljefs, zemcilnis

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Latvian translation:	bareljefs, zemcilnis

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12:36 Apr 13, 2009

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Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Additional field(s): History, Archaeology

English term or phrase: bas-relief

Definition from About.com:
Bas-relief sculpture is stone sculpture made by chipping away at a slab of rock to make a picture that stands out. It is also called low relief sculpture (bas being the French for 'low') and is contrasted with high relief sculpture where the image stands out further from the surface. The Egyptians, Persians, Greeks and many others have used bas-relief.

Example sentence(s):

Great importance is attached to outer and inner dressing of artistic expressive means, bass-relief picturing Maecenas having contributed to the construction, the life-trees, angels, apostles, Christ and St. Astvadsasin become the inseparable part of those complexes, interwoven with architectural patterns and devices. armenians.com
There is a famous mosaic in Urhoy, which depicts a royal banquet dated 278 A.D. The similarities between it and the earlier Assyrian bass relief of the victory banquet in the palace of the King Ashurbanipal 668-630 B.C. in Nineveh are striking, which proves that the art and traditions in Urhoy were the continuity of the ancient Assyrian ones. cavemanart.com
On the Mexican feroher before alluded to, and which is most elaborately carved in bass-relief on a massive piece of polygonous granite, constituting a portion of a cyclopean wall, the cross is enclosed within the ring, and accompanying it are four tassel-like ornaments, graved equally well. fullbooks.com

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bareljefs, zemcilnis

Definition:
"Ciļņa veids, kurā skulpturālais atveids izvirzās virs plaknes mazāk par pusi."

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bareljefs, zemcilnis

Definition from Mākslas portāls "Art Garden":
"Ciļņa veids, kurā skulpturālais atveids izvirzās virs plaknes mazāk par pusi."

Example sentence(s):

[Ēģiptē] "Senajā valstī iecienīts bija zemcilnis. Tam piemīt grafisks raksturs, tas tik tikko paceļas virs pamatnes, nedod ēnu un īstenībā ir uz kaļķakmens pārnests zīmējums. Zemciļņa kontūru izteiksmīgumu kāpina izkrāsojums." - Ailab / kultūra

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Sk. arī http://eraksti.delfi.lv/forma.php?gid=95&b=1
- "Latviešu pareizrakstības vārdnīca".

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Native speaker of: Latvian
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