Columns, or at least large structural exterior ones, became much less significant in the architecture of the Middle Ages, and the classical forms were abandoned in both Byzantine architecture and the Romanesque and Gothic architecture or Europe in favour of more flexible forms, with capitals often using various types of foliage decoration, and in the West scenes with figures carved in relief.

Wedgwood's company is still a famous name in pottery today ( as part of Waterford Wedgwood ; see Waterford Crystal ), and " Wedgwood China " is sometimes used as a term for his Jasperware, the coloured stoneware with applied relief decoration ( usually white ), still common throughout the world.

It was cast in 1586 by Andrey Chokhov, and is notable also by its rich relief decoration.

The Grove Dictionary of Art will have none of this confusion, and says flatly: " Over the centuries the word has been applied to a wide variety of winding and twining vegetal decoration in art and meandering themes in music, but it properly applies only to Islamic art ", so contradicting the definition of 1888 still found in the Oxford English Dictionary: " A species of mural or surface decoration in colour or low relief, composed in flowing lines of branches, leaves, and scroll-work fancifully intertwined.

Small Buddhist figures and groups were produced to a very high quality in a range of media, as was relief decoration of all sorts of objects, especially in metalwork and jade.

There are 74 high relief figures in silver-gilt in all, not counting smaller additional figures in the background decoration.

They perfected the art of carving intricate relief decoration and, through keen observation of the natural world, produced detailed images of animals, plants, and even landscapes, recording the essential elements of their world for eternity in scenes painted and carved on the walls of temples and tombs.

In roughly the 3rd to 1st centuries BC some very elaborately worked torcs with relief decoration in a late form of La Tène style have been found in Britain and Ireland.

It was rebuilt starting from the 12th century ( though the work dragged on until the 15th century ), when a remarkable Romanesque façade was added: this has three doors with rose-windows, with a splendid relief decoration by local artists, portraying stories of the life of St. Peter.

The high relief decoration in the front was designed by Diego Rivera and created as a mosaic using naturally colored stones.

But small ivory reliefs, almost all in the iconic mode ( the Harbaville Triptych is of similar date to the Paris Psalter, but very different in style ), were a speciality, as was relief decoration on bowls and other metal objects.

Various techniques of metalworking were used: full casting for the sarcophagus ; hollow casting for decorative sculpture ; carving, engraving, and hammered relief for surface decoration.

Pastiglia was decoration in low relief carved or moulded in gesso, and was very widely used.

Stucco relief was used in the architectural decoration schemes of many ancient cultures.

Roman red gloss terra sigillata bowl with relief decoration

Circular clerestory windows are trimmed in plaster relief decoration.

The relief decoration was removed at the request of the French forces in 1945, probably to prevent Germans from being reminded of former victories, especially the defeat of the French in 1871.

The walls have relief decoration depicting animals, warriors, crosses, and floral motifs.

Hence the background of the miniature of the 12th and immediately succeeding centuries became the field for decoration to throw into stronger relief the figures in the scene.

As the new religion was a monotheistic worship of the sun, sacrifices and worship were apparently conducted in open courtyards, and sunk relief decoration was widely used in these.

In the towards looked there was a strange " pictorial relief " of which some of this " grottesche " were realised: it was the roman stucco, a great techniques that the ancient roman was utilised to reproduce the marble effect, as soon as the decoration can be do from a marble slab, that was too much expensive already at that time and for the Imperator ( we have to think that there were all a " Domus " in marble, for a size as like as a range of KM 1. 5-2 around Colosseum, it was the most famous residence of the Roman Empire ).

Ramesses decoration was at first in raised relief, but he quickly changed to sunk relief and then converted his raised relief decoration in the southern part of the hall, along with the few reliefs of Seti there, to sunk relief.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

The basic difficulty, I suppose, was in my ultimate inability to feel a burden of sin from which I sought relief.

He got no relief from drink because, though sometimes Precious would buy himself a drink if he went out with us in the evening, he'd leave it on the table untouched.

Alex suppressed those expressions of relief which offered to prevail in his face and escape from his throat ; ;

The two men sat for some time, savoring the pleasure of escape from peril and the relief such escape brings, before they got up and left the hotel, the doctor to go to the conference house and Alex to go to the main post office.

they had also had to generalize it -- to the point, finally, where the illusion of depth and relief became abstracted from specific three-dimensional entities and was rendered largely as the illusion of depth and relief as such: as a disembodied attribute and expropriated property detached from everything not itself.

People who have not been able to get relief from regular medical doctors are especially apt to be taken in by quacks ''.

Although science has given us more effective materials, preparations from anise, castorbean, colchicum, nux vomica, mustard, fennel, and stramonium are familiar to many for the relief of human ailments.

Kennedy opposes any widespread relief from a High Court depletion ruling.

We consume tons of aspirin and tranquilizers and sleeping pills in order to get a moment's relief from the tensions that are tearing us apart.

And Judy sang the lovely old familiar things which seemed, at times, a blessed relief from the way-out compositions of the progressive jazzmen who have dominated these proceedings.

She refolded the letter, replaced it in its envelope, and turned with relief to one from her brother George.

Sweat started out on William's forehead, whether from relief or disquietude he could not tell.

Carved in high relief from a single piece of agate, this extraordinary vase was most likely created in an imperial workshop for a Byzantine emperor.

Farmers were recruited into regiments for this work from August to October — a period of food shortage — under the control of city temple authorities, thus acting as a form of unemployment relief.

In this relief, the two principal figures, the stern and courageous pope and the dismayed and frightened Attila, surge forward from the center into three dimensions.

* Ainia, presumably accompanied Penthesilea to the Trojan War, killed by Achilles ; known only from an Attic terracotta relief fragment.

The most remarkable of his works are Mercury and Ignorance, the Deluge, Pharaoh's Host Drowned in the Red Sea ( after Titian ), the Triumph of Caesar ( after Mantegna ), and Christ retiring from the judgment-seat of Pilate after a relief by Giambologna.

After this, the senior priest ( or bishop ) pours pure olive oil and a small amount of wine into the shrine lamp, and says the " Prayer of the Oil ", which calls upon God to "... sanctify this Oil, that it may be effectual for those who shall be anointed therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from every passion, every malady of the flesh and of the spirit, and every ill ..." Then follow seven series of epistles, gospels, long prayers, Ektenias ( litanies ) and anointings.

The Bahamas offers attractive features to the potential investor: a stable democratic environment, relief from personal and corporate income taxes, timely repatriation of corporate profits, proximity to the U. S. with extensive air and telecommunications links, and a good pool of skilled professional workers.

Fist depicted in Sumerian relief ( in Iraq ) carvings from the 3rd millennium BC, while an ancient Egyptian relief from the 2nd millennium BC depicts both fist-fighters and spectators.