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[[File:Urfa museum Animal relief sept 2019 4772.jpg|thumb|Animal relief from the Neolithic [[w:Göbekli Tepe|Göbekli Tepe]].]] | [[File:Urfa museum Animal relief sept 2019 4772.jpg|thumb|Animal relief from the Neolithic [[w:Göbekli Tepe|Göbekli Tepe]].]] | ||
[[File:Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their children.jpg|thumb|right|A sunk-relief depiction of Pharaoh [[w:Akhenaten|Akhenaten]] with his wife [[w:Nefertiti|Nefertiti]] and daughters. The main background has not been removed, merely that in the immediate vicinity of the sculpted form. Note how strong shadows are needed to define the image.]] | |||
'''Relief''' ({{French|le relief}} "elevation, that which is raised", from {{Latin|relevare}} "to lift up") is a pictorial artistic form of representation that stands out plastically from the background, and thus stands as an independent art form between surface-based painting and spatially designed sculpture. According to the height of the sculptural elevations, one speaks of a bas-relief, a half-relief or a high relief. The Greco-Roman culture was a heyday of relief art. A special feature of ancient Egyptian art were the sunken reliefs | '''Relief''' ({{French|le relief}} "elevation, that which is raised", from {{Latin|relevare}} "to lift up") is a pictorial artistic form of representation that stands out plastically from the background, and thus stands as an independent art form between surface-based painting and spatially designed sculpture. According to the height of the sculptural elevations, one speaks of a '''low relief''' or '''bas-relief''', a half-relief or a '''high relief'''. The Greco-Roman culture was a heyday of relief art. A special feature of ancient Egyptian art were the '''sunk reliefs''', where image is made by cutting the figures itself into a flat surface. In a simpler form the images are usually mostly linear in nature, like hieroglyphs, but in most cases the figure itself is in low relief, but set within a sunken area shaped round the image, so that the relief never rises beyond the original flat surface. They must not be confused with '''counter-reliefs''' in which the depicted figures were worked into the material in a completely negative manner as hollow forms. | ||
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Relief (French: le relief "elevation, that which is raised", from Latin: relevare "to lift up") is a pictorial artistic form of representation that stands out plastically from the background, and thus stands as an independent art form between surface-based painting and spatially designed sculpture. According to the height of the sculptural elevations, one speaks of a low relief or bas-relief, a half-relief or a high relief. The Greco-Roman culture was a heyday of relief art. A special feature of ancient Egyptian art were the sunk reliefs, where image is made by cutting the figures itself into a flat surface. In a simpler form the images are usually mostly linear in nature, like hieroglyphs, but in most cases the figure itself is in low relief, but set within a sunken area shaped round the image, so that the relief never rises beyond the original flat surface. They must not be confused with counter-reliefs in which the depicted figures were worked into the material in a completely negative manner as hollow forms.
See also
Literatur
- Rudolf Steiner: Wege zu einem neuen Baustil, GA 286 (1982), ISBN 3-7274-2860-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
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