Everyone had been at stretch, till the half-relief of borrowed time. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
On the left face of the column, partly turned toward us, was a figure in half-relief. From Wordnik.com. [Dread Companion]
All round the circumference of each bowl were figures in half-relief, representing a woman dancing. From Wordnik.com. [In The Time Of Light] Reference
One of them, in the middle, was in full relief, the other two in half-relief. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini] Reference
All round the circumference of each bowl were figures in half-relief, representing. From Wordnik.com. [King of the Khyber Rifles] Reference
And for a chapel in the Consolazione, at Rome, he made three figures of marble in half-relief. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto] Reference
The same Lorenzo made a tomb with two children in half-relief, for a merchant of the Perini family, in the Trinità at Rome. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto] Reference
Next, he made the little baptismal font of S. Giovanni, wherein are certain scenes in half-relief from the life of that S.int. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi] Reference
In half-relief at not being clapped in handcuffs for aiding and abetting an imaginary intruder, Bill trudges back to his wife. From Wordnik.com. [Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed] Reference
Twelve square panels contain scenes of the life and acts of the bishop in an infinite number of small figures carved in half-relief. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)] Reference
Much extolled, also, is a large Pietà of marble that he made in half-relief on the front of the altar, with the Madonna and S. John weeping. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto] Reference
After that work he made some little scenes of marble in half-relief on the predella of the altar at the tomb of S. Dominic, in the same city. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto] Reference
On the said façade are certain figures, and under the portico many scenes in marble from the life of S. Martin, in half-relief, and in the Greek manner. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi] Reference
Capponi, who was an excellent citizen and a true gentleman, there is a marble panel with the Madonna in half-relief, which is held to be a very rare work. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi] Reference
Besides this, there are carved in half-relief, in compartments, twelve scenes from the life and actions of that Bishop, with an infinite number of little figures. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi] Reference
On a round column in the said Pieve he painted a S. Vincent in fresco; and in S. Francesco he made some saints round a Madonna in half-relief, for the family of the. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi] Reference
The façade also contains some figures and a number of scenes in half-relief below the portico relating to the life of St Martin executed in marble and in the Byzantine style. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)] Reference
The whole piece reposed upon a base of ebony, properly proportioned, but with a projecting cornice, upon which I introduced four golden figures in rather more than half-relief. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini] Reference
This Lady's sanctuary, where she is still "enchanting" in her "eagle in half-relief," stands out prominently on the hill above the town of Taal, plainly visible from Balayan Bay. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Cancer] Reference
In this Loggia, between the arches on the front wall, in some ornamental work by his own hand, Orcagna made seven marble figures in half-relief representing the seven Theological and Cardinal. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi] Reference
Here Spinello produced a large number of figures in tempera, both small and great, on a gold ground, with great judgment, and afterwards caused it to be framed in an ornament in half-relief by. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)] Reference
Some unseen hand drew a blind over the great window and an eerie green-and-golden light began to play from one end of the room, throwing the dancers into half-relief and deepening the mystery. From Wordnik.com. [King of the Khyber Rifles] Reference
His Majesty always took with him on his journeys; and this was full of figures of gold, partly in the round and partly in half-relief, with many engraved gems distributed over the limbs of those figures. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi] Reference
Pieve of Arezzo, he sent a Madonna with the Child in her arms, made of terra-cotta, with certain angels in half-relief, very well executed; which Madonna is now in the said Pieve, set up against a column. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna] Reference
Fiore, after Giotto's design, and about that campanile, in certain mandorle, the seven planets, the seven virtues, and the seven works of mercy in small figures in half-relief, which were then much admired. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)] Reference
The first of these was in somewhat more than half-relief, lifting one hand to support the cornice, and holding a thick club in the other; his face was fiery and menacing, instilling fear into the beholders. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini] Reference
Campanile of S. Maria del Fiore, and round the same Campanile, in certain mandorle, the seven planets, the seven virtues, and the seven works of mercy, little figures in half-relief that were then much praised. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi] Reference
At Forlì, over the door of the Canon's house, he wrought a Madonna with two angels in low-relief; and he adorned the Chapel of the Trinità in S. Francesco with work in half-relief for Messer Giovanni da Riolo. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna] Reference
Dietisalvi Neroni, to make a little panel with figures of Our Lady with the Child in her arms, and S. Laurence on one side and S. Leonard on the other, in half-relief, which was intended for the priests or chapter of. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna] Reference
Perugia, for Messer Baglione Ribi, he sent a marble panel, which was placed in the Chapel of the S.crament in S. Pietro, the work being in the form of a tabernacle, with S. John on one side and S. Jerome on the other -- good figures in half-relief. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna] Reference
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