Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
bas-relief
French translation:
bas-relief
Apr 13, 2009 12:35
15 yrs ago
English term
bas-relief
GBK
English to French
Art/Literary
Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Definition from
About.com:
Bas-relief sculpture is stone sculpture made by chipping away at a slab of rock to make a picture that stands out. It is also called low relief sculpture (bas being the French for 'low') and is contrasted with high relief sculpture where the image stands out further from the surface. The Egyptians, Persians, Greeks and many others have used bas-relief.
Example sentences:
Great importance is attached to outer and inner dressing of artistic expressive means, bass-relief picturing Maecenas having contributed to the construction, the life-trees, angels, apostles, Christ and St. Astvadsasin become the inseparable part of those complexes, interwoven with architectural patterns and devices. (armenians.com)
There is a famous mosaic in Urhoy, which depicts a royal banquet dated 278 A.D. The similarities between it and the earlier Assyrian bass relief of the victory banquet in the palace of the King Ashurbanipal 668-630 B.C. in Nineveh are striking, which proves that the art and traditions in Urhoy were the continuity of the ancient Assyrian ones. (cavemanart.com)
On the Mexican feroher before alluded to, and which is most elaborately carved in bass-relief on a massive piece of polygonous granite, constituting a portion of a cyclopean wall, the cross is enclosed within the ring, and accompanying it are four tassel-like ornaments, graved equally well. (fullbooks.com)
Proposed translations
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| 5 +2 | bas-relief |
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| 4 -2 | low-relief |
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bas-relief
Definition from
Le Grand Robert:
Archit. Ouvrage de sculpture en faible saillie sur un fond uni (s'oppose à haut-relief [cit. 1]). è Basse-taille (vx), relief. | Moulage des bas reliefs (lottinoplastie). | Bas-relief égyptien, renaissance. | Bas-relief polychrome. — Sculpture en bas-relief.
Example sentences:
Je me rappelais ma rue aux femmes de Tolga, et cette double rangée de figures charmantes collées au mur comme des bas-reliefs peints Fromentin, Un été dans le Sahara, ii. (Le Grand Robert)
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Catherine Siné
: bien sûr, en français "bas-relief"
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Terry Gwenn
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
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45 mins
low-relief
Definition from
Wikipedia:
A bas-relief (pronounced [baʁəljɛf] ("bah relief") in French; French for "low relief", derived from the Italian basso rilievo) or low relief is where the overall depth of a projecting image is shallow. The background is very compressed or completely flat, as on most coins, on which all images are in low-relief.
Example sentences:
The frieze in the classical Corinthian order is often enriched with bas-relief (low relief). (Wikipedia)
Low Relief sculpture - A type of sculpture in which form projects from a background. There are three degrees or types of relief: high, low, and sunken. In high relief, the forms stand far out from the background. In low relief (best known as bas-relief), they are shallow. (modern art images)
Peer comment(s):
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L3r0y
: L'expression en français passe aussi !
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Catherine Siné
: Bas-relief étant un terme typiquement français, c'est dommage d'utiliser l'anglais si on peut l'éviter. En particulier pour un glossaire...
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Stéphanie Soudais
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Fabienne F. (X)
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