The elegant St. George and the Dragon relief on the statue's base, executed in schiacciato ( also known as bas-relief or basso rilievo ) is one of the first examples of central-point perspective in sculpture.

A memorial was erected to Goss in St Paul's in 1886 ; beneath a bas-relief by Hamo Thornycroft is the opening of Goss's " If we believe ," the anthem sung at his funeral service in the cathedral.

The upper story was destroyed in a siege conducted on the order of Pope Pius II in 1463, although a bas-relief of it was made by Bernardino di Pietro da Carona in 1513 on an adjacent wall of the annexed church and the loggia of St. Michael, the former having a noteworthy Renaissance portal.

He had also executed the carvings on the building, the most notable being a round bas-relief depicting St. Francis receiving the stigmata.

A bas-relief of St. Hyacinth hangs above the main altar, as well as full statues of St. Peter and St. Paul.

His chief works were Hannibal in the Jardin des Tuileries, a statue of St Ambrose in the Invalides, and a bas-relief Saint Louis sending missionaries to India.

In literature, Gustave Flaubert was inspired by the stained glass windows of St. Julian and the bas-relief of Salome, and based two of his Three Tales on them.

The organistrum appears on a bas-relief from the abbey of St Georges de Boscherville ( 11th cent.

There is also a bas-relief by French sculptor François-Antoine Gérard ( who also did some of the other carvings ) showing the exhumation and removal of the remains of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to the Basilica of St Denis.

For the illusion of depth created by the contrast between the affixed material and everything else gives way immediately to an illusion of forms in bas-relief, which gives way in turn, and with equal immediacy, to an illusion that seems to contain both -- or neither.

In their very first collages, Braque and Picasso draw or paint over and on the affixed paper or cloth, so that certain of the principal features of their subjects as depicted seem to thrust out into real, bas-relief space -- or to be about to do so -- while the rest of the subject remains imbedded in, or flat upon, the surface.

The affixed elements of collage were extruded, as it were, and cut off from the literal pictorial surface to form a bas-relief.

Classicizing architectonic structure and decor all ' antica, in the " ancient mode ", became a fashionable way to frame a painted or bas-relief portrait, or protect an expensive and precious mirror during the High Renaissance ; Italian precedents were imitated in France, then in Spain, England and Germany during the later 16th century.

" Iroquois are also known for " embossed " beading in which strings pulled taunt force beads to pop up from the surface, creating a bas-relief.

A bas-relief of a soldier and horse with saddle and stirrup s, from the tomb of Chinese Emperor Taizong of Tang ( r. 626-649 ), c. 650

In the Blundell collection is a bas-relief of a temple with double doors, each leaf with five panels.

Denis Diderot said it looked like he copied it from some ancient bas-relief.

Nathan ( prophet ) | Nathan confronts David ; bronze bas-relief by Henri de Triqueti.

The other twenty-two figures have their profiles turned to Moses, which is the only forward-facing bas-relief.

There are also of stone panels carved in bas-relief, that include pictorial records documenting every construction step including carving the statues and transporting them on a barge.

From a bas-relief at Philae.

The Eleusinian mysteries | Eleusinian trio: Persephone, Triptolemus and Demeter on a marble bas-relief from Eleusis, 440-430 BC.

The bas-relief of the Samudra manthan | Churning of the Sea of Milk shows Vishnu in the centre, his turtle Avatar Kurma below, asura s and deva ( Hinduism ) | deva s to left and right, and apsaras and Indra above.

A bas-relief of Suleiman adorning the interior of the United States House of Representatives.

The UK National Shrine is located at the Catholic church at Crediton, Devon, which has a bas-relief of the felling of Thor's Oak, by sculptor Kenneth Carter.

Iberian warrior from bas-relief ca.

The notion sprang from an ancient bas-relief of George and the Dragon on the Lydda church.

The bas-relief at Angkor Wat showed a Lavo army as one of the subordinates to Angkor.

He therefore donated his $ 500 lecture fee to the university to help pay for a suitable monument, which was finally unveiled in 1912 in the form of a bronze bas-relief by sculptor Lee Lawrie, installed in the Sloane Physics Laboratory.

Trajan appears before Isis and Horus, presenting them with votive offerings of wine, in a bas-relief on his triumphal arch in Rome.

The blending of sexual and spiritual is portrayed in Hindu iconography, as seen in ubiquitous phallic and vaginal iconography in Hindu temples and for instance in the Kharjuraho and Konarak medieval temples, where thousands of couples having sex in endless positions, and with the gods, are carved in deep bas-relief.

A number of his works were destroyed during the French Revolution ; the most famous of those that remain are " La Seine at la Marne ", the " Berger Chasseur ", and " Daphne Pursued by Apollo " in the gardens of the Tuileries, the bas-relief " Le Passage du Rhin " in the Louvre, the statues of Julius Caesar and Louis XV in the Louvre, and the " Descent from the Cross " behind the choir altar of the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris.

Of these latter, the bas-relief representing Louis XIV mounted and accompanied by Justice and Prudence was destroyed during the Revolution, but was restored in 1815 by Pierre Cartellier from Coustou's model ; the bronze figures of Mars and Minerva ( 1733 – 34 ), on either side of the doorway, were not interfered with.

His statue of Milo of Croton ( Louvre ) had been completed in 1682, Perseus and Andromeda ( Louvre ) in 1684 ; and Alexander and Diogenes ( bas-relief, Louvre ) in 1685, but, in spite of the personal favour which he enjoyed, Puget, on coming to Paris in 1688 to push forward the execution of an equestrian statue of Louis XIV, found court intrigues too much for him.

Its later panels in bas-relief and inscriptions glorifying King Louis XIV of France were added in 1715.

* Louis XIV, equestrian bas-relief for the Hôtel des Invalides.

" Asian Saka headgear is clearly visible on the Persepolis Apadana staircase bas-relief – high pointed hat with flaps over ears and the nape of the neck.

He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism.

The relief is mostly in stiacciato, while the foreground figures are done in bas-relief.

The bas-relief is now kept at the Municipal Museum of Trogir.

That Livy's euhemerist and realist deflation of this myth, so central to the origins of Rome, was not general is demonstrated by the recurring theme of Mars discovering Rhea Silvia – the Latinists ' " invention " ( to come upon ) of Rhea Silvia " – in Roman arts: in bas-relief on the Casali Altar ( Vatican Museums ), in engraved couched glass on the Portland Vase ( British Museum ), or on a sarcophagus in the Palazzo Mattei.

Pictorial often narrative bas-relief frieze carving provides a characteristic feature of the Ionic order, in the area where the Doric order is articulated with triglyphs.

It is a black limestone, bas-relief sculpture from Nimrud ( ancient Kalhu ), in northern Iraq.

The Battle of Kadesh in 1274 BC was one of the defining points of Pharaoh Ramesses II's reign and is celebrated in bas-relief on his monuments.

** Likewise, the battle is depicted in a crude bas-relief at the 12th century temple of Preah Khan.

Such is the bas-relief by Giovanni Battista Maini of The Burning of Heretical Books over a side door on the façade of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, which depicts the burning of ' heretical ' books as a triumph of righteousness.

The example of kori agung or paduraksa style gate is the elegant Bajang Ratu gate richly decorated with Kala demon, cyclops and also the bas-relief telling the story of Sri Tanjung.

A. H. Layard's statement in his 1853 book Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon is " A falconer bearing a hawk on his wrist appeared to be represented in a bas-relief which I saw on my last visit to those ruins.

In the middle of Athenry is the stump of a cross destroyed in the wars, on which a crucifix in bas-relief still remains.

This bas-relief depicting the signing of the Mayflower Compact is on Bradford Street in Provincetown directly below the Pilgrim Monument.

At the entrance to one of them is a bas-relief dedicated to Pan and the nymphs.

Machin produced a bas-relief in clay, which when combined with a different coloured background, is reminiscent of the overlaid decoration of potteries such as Wedgwood.

The Battle of Lanka is depicted in a famous bas-relief in the 12th century Khmer temple of Angkor Wat.

In the former is to be found his explication of an early Imperial Roman bas-relief, with inscriptions, now in the Capitol at Rome, representing the war and taking of Troy, one of the Tabulae Iliacae.

His granite tomb is adorned with a bas-relief, sculpted by Boso of Parma, which depicts an instructor seated in a large chair lecturing to students.