A bas-relief of a soldier and horse with elaborate saddle and stirrup s, from the tomb of Emperor Taizong, c. 650

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

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.

" 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.

The bas-relief in the Arch of Titus has been influential in the depiction of the destruction of Jerusalem, with the Menorah frequently being used to symbolise the looting of the Second Temple.

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.

A bas-relief from Eisenberg ( see left ) shows the couple in the same relative positions, with Rosmerta securely identified by the inscription.

The bas-relief of Samudra manthan from Angkor Wat, Cambodia, shows Vishnu in the center, in his Kurma Avatar, with the Asuras and the Deva ( Hinduism ) | Devas on either side.

The ' bas-relief ' ( raised portion on the face of the main part of the monument ) portrays the Boston Massacre, with Attucks lying in the foreground.

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.

The first chapter, The Horror in Clay, concerns a small bas-relief sculpture found among the papers, which the narrator describes: " My somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature .... A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings.

At first, classicizing decor was grafted onto familiar European forms, as in the interiors for Catherine II's lover Count Orlov, designed by an Italian architect with a team of Italian stuccadori: only the isolated oval medallions like cameos and the bas-relief overdoors hint of neoclassicism ; the furnishings are fully Italian Rococo.

The wood's dense hardness lent itself to refined moldings framing finely detailed pictorial panels with carving in very low relief ( bas-relief ), usually of allegorical subjects, or with scenes taken from classical or Christian history.

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.

Inksticks themselves are sometimes ornately decorated with landscapes or flowers in bas-relief and some are highlighted with gold.

Space was limited, and Bramante made a theatrical apse in bas-relief, combining the painterly arts of perspective with Roman details.

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.

Ernst Friedrich, a German who had refused military service, founded the Anti-Kriegs Museum in Berlin with a bas-relief broken rifle over the door, and the Museum distributed broken rifle badges, girls ' and women's brooches, boys ' belt buckles, and men's tie pins.

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.

He claimed that de ' Rossi had an unrequited affection for Anton Galeazzo Malvasia, a young nobleman, and the bas-relief panel allowed her to illustrate Malvasia ’ s denial of a romantic relationship.

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

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

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

" Expulsion from Paradise ", marble bas-relief by Lorenzo Maitani on the Orvieto Cathedral, Italy

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

Iberian warrior from bas-relief ca.

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

Tabula Iliaca, a 1st-century BC Roman bas-relief depicting scenes from Trojan War narratives

Beside his profile portrait by Lazzaro Bastiani, Foscari commissioned a bas-relief bronze plaquette from Donatello, which survives in several examples.

The detail ( illustration, left ), part of the basic vocabulary of trained architects from the later 18th century onwards, shows how the width of the metopes was flexible: here they bear the famous bas-relief sculptures of the battle of Lapiths and Centaurs.

Ancient Persian bas-relief – Apadana or Behistun inscription, ancient Greek pottery, archaeological findings from Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, China et al.

In 1769 he was awarded the first gold medal for sculpture given by the Royal Academy, for a bas-relief representing the escape of Aeneas from Troy.

They include a colossal bust in the Vatican, a bust in the Louvre ( the Antinous Mondragone ), a bas-relief from the Villa Albani, a statue in the Capitoline museum ( the so-called Capitoline Antinous, now accepted to be a portrayal of Hermes ), another in Berlin, another in the Lateran and one in the Fitzwilliam Museum ; and many more may be seen in museums across Europe.

In Trogir ( the ancient Roman Tragurium ), Croatia, in the Convent of the Benedictine Nuns, was displayed a marble bas-relief of Kairos from the 3rd century B. C., as a young man, running.

A stone bas-relief from Escolives-Sainte-Camille shows her bolding both a patera and a cornucopia.

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

Roman imperial guard, bas-relief from the Julio-Claudian dynasty | Julio-Claudian period.

" The current bells range from small 19 pound bells to the 10, 500 pound " Great Bear Bell ," which tolls on the hour and features bas-relief carvings of bears as well as the constellation Ursa Major.

Drawing of an Assyrian bas-relief from Nimrud showing domed structures

A Neo-Assyrian bas-relief from Kuyunjik depicts domed buildings, although remains of such a structure in that ancient city have yet to be identified, perhaps due to the impermanent nature of sun-dried mudbrick construction.