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RELIEVO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relievo mean? 

RELIEVO (noun)
  The noun RELIEVO has 1 sense:

1. sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding backgroundplay

  Familiarity information: RELIEVO used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RELIEVO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

embossment; relief; relievo; rilievo; sculptural relief

Hypernyms ("relievo" is a kind of...):

sculpture (a three-dimensional work of plastic art)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "relievo"):

alto relievo; alto rilievo; high relief (a sculptural relief in which forms extend out from the background to at least half their depth)

bas relief; basso relievo; basso rilievo; low relief (a sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut)

half-relief; mezzo-relievo; mezzo-rilievo (a sculptural relief between low relief and high relief)


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