bas-relief
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"This bas-relief was already known, but no one had ever noticed the identical details to those found in Homer's cave. This is the first time such a detailed geographical description came to light," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
Man Ray also built ingenious collages, bas-relief constructions and elegant chess sets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
As The Times reported in 1989, the giant bas-relief figures on the venue’s exterior are of the Maya god Huitzilopochtli seated on a symbolic earth monster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2025
They include an imposing obelisk outside Rome's Olympic stadium that bears his name, and a bas-relief of Mussolini in the modernist Eur district that the fascists built to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their march.
From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2022
Ruins of Mesopotamian ziggurats and bas-relief sculpture, as well as Egyptian pyramids, testify to complex civilizations.
From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
