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