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RILIEVO (rilievi)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rilievo mean?
• RILIEVO (noun)
The noun RILIEVO has 1 sense:
1. sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background
Familiarity information: RILIEVO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("rilievo" is a kind of...):
sculpture (a three-dimensional work of plastic art)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rilievo"):
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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