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    Use "relievo" in a sentence

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    relievo


    1. Models in alto relievo show all the variations of the surface of the earth-- the conditions before and after the great cataclysms which have changed it so


    2. "The first object of a painter is to make a simple flat surface appear like a relievo, and some of its parts detached from the ground; he who excels all others in that part of the art deserves the greatest praise,"[1] wrote Leonardo da Vinci, and the insistence on this "standing out" quality, with its appeal to the touch sense as something great in art, sounds very strange in these days


    3. But what infinitely enriched and adorned them, was the sweet intersection formed, where they met, at the bottom of the smoothest, roundest, whitest belly, by that central furrow which nature had sunk there, between the soft relievo of two pouting ridges, and which, in this girl, was in perfect symmetry of delicacy and miniature with the rest of her frame


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    Synonyms for "relievo"

    embossment relief relievo rilievo sculptural relief

    "relievo" definitions

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