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Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term relief is from the Latin verb relevo, to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane. When a relief is carved into a flat surface of stone (relief sculpture) or wood (relief carving), the field is actually lowered, leaving the unsculpted areas seeming higher. The approach requires a lot of chiselling away of the background, which takes a long time. On the other hand, a relief saves forming the rear of a subject, and is less fragile and more securely fixed than a sculpture in the round, especially one of a standing figure where the ankles are a potential weak point, particularly in stone. In other materials such as metal, clay, plaster stucco, ceramics or papier-mâché the form can be simply added to or raised up from the background. Monumental bronze reliefs are made by casting.

Relief - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sculptural technique of embossed depth This article is about the sculptural method. For emotion, see Relief (emotion) . For other uses, see Relief (disambiguation) . Side view of Lorenzo Ghiberti 's cast gilt-bronze Gates of Paradise at the Florence Baptistery in Florence , Italy, combining high-relief main figures with backgrounds mostly in low relief. A common mixture of high and low relief, in the Roman Ara Pacis , placed to be seen from below. Low relief background. A face of the high-relief Frieze of Parnassus round

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