Bas-relief Definition

Bas-relief Sentence Examples

• There is a small shrine at the spot, containing a bas-relief representing the birth of the Buddha.

• Its most important feature is a large stucco bas-relief, occupying a central position on the back wall of the sanctuary.

• Both pillars and cross-bars were elaborately carved in bas-relief, and most of them bore inscriptions giving either the name of the donor, or the subject of the bas-relief, or both.

• But the Buddha is now forgotten there, and the bas relief is reverenced only for the figure of the mother, who has been turned into a tutelary deity of the place.

• Varenus Diphilus, a freedman, a magister herculaneus, were found in situ in 1883, and in 1902 two vases of statues erected by Diphilus, as inscriptions showed, in honour of his patron, and a bas-relief of bearded Hercules entirely draped in a long tunic with a lion's skin on his shoulders.