The Bas-relief of the Tree of Jesse is a large work by religious sculptor Czesław Dźwigaj which was recently incorporated into the Church of St. Catherine within the Church of the Nativity as a gift of Pope Benedict XVI during his trip to the Holy Land in 2009.

Image: 0 Sainte Waudru-Mons 1. JPG | Bas-relief on the western wall in Saint Waltrude's Collegiate Church

Wax Bas-relief on glass of Hoban circa 1800

Bas-relief of Jesus giving the Sermon on the Mount

Bas-relief Gallo-Roman time: trade of wine on the Durance ( Cabrières-d ' Aigues, Vaucluse ) In pre-Roman times, the Durance was the border between various Celto-Ligurian people established along its course, such as the Cavares ( Cavaillon ) and the Salyes ( Bouches-du-Rhône ).

Image: 20070124 sejm detale budynek k kobieta z golebiem. jpg | Bas-relief from the Polish Parliament building in Warsaw, Poland

Bas-relief from the king Sargon II's palace at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria ( now Khorsabad in Iraq ), c. 713 – 716 BC.

This copy of a Relief # Bas-relief or low relief | bas relief from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal ( 669 – 631 BC ) at Nineveh shows a luxurious garden watered by an aqueduct.

Bas-relief from Angkor Wat, Cambodia, shows Samudra manthan-Vishnu in the centre, his turtle Avatar Kurma below, asura s and deva ( Hinduism ) | devas to left and right

Bas-relief friezes depict significant scenes from the history of both Texas and baseball.

File: Decebalus b. jpg | Bas-relief from 113 AD representing the Dacian King Decebalus, wearing a Dacian cap, Trajan's Column, Rome.

Bas-relief sculptures illustrate scenes from biblical stories, scenes from the life of Kaiser Wilhelm I and symbolic figures representing war and peace.

Bas-relief of Gaius from the chamber of the U. S. House of Representatives.

Bas-relief from the entrance pillars of the Bayon.

Bas-relief from Taif, Saudi Arabia, around 100 AD

Bas-relief of Allāt from Palmyra, shown with a palm branch and a lion

Bas-relief of John Knox preaching at St Giles in Edinburgh before the court of Mary Stuart.

Bas-relief of a charioteer, late 6th century B. C.

Bas-relief of 9th century Prambanan temple, Java, Indonesia

Bas-relief of a quadriga race in the Circus Maximus ( 2nd-3rd century ).

Bas-relief of 9th century Prambanan Trimurti temple, Java, Indonesia.

Bas-relief of 9th century Prambanan temple, Java, Indonesia

Bas-relief depicting the tauroctony.

Bas-relief of Gregory IX in the United States House of Representatives | US House of Representatives.

Bas-relief of Tribonian ( c. 500 – 547 )

Image: Bas-relief_of_fascinus. jpg | Bas-relief of fascinus

An Assyrian winged bull, also known as a shedu, Bas-relief c. 713 – 716 BC

Bas-relief in Persepolis — a symbol Zoroastrism | Zoroastrian Nowruz — in day of a spring equinox power of eternally fighting bull ( personifying the moon ), and a lion ( personifying the Sun, the bulls crescent horn resembling the moon, the lions mane, representing the sun.

File: Nowruz Zoroastrian. jpg | Bas-relief in Persepolis-a symbol of Zoroastrian Nowruz-in day of a spring equinox power of eternally fighting bull ( personifying the Earth ), and a lion ( personifying the Sun ), are equal

Image: Bas relief at Ryerson University. jpg | Elizabeth Wyn Wood's Bas-relief at Ryerson University in Toronto

This sacred subject carved on early Christian tombs, where the sepulchral carvings have a deeply important formal symbolic purpose, a faithful wish for immortality, " with the victory of the cock and his supporting genius analogous to the hope of resurrection, the victory of the soul over death ", with further understanding as to that of the gallantry of cocks being taken in the context of a religious instilling vessel of " a girt one of the loins "( Young's Literal Translation ) that which is " stately in his stride " and " move with stately bearing " within the Book of Proverbs 30: 29-31.

Transportation to the afterlife was believed to be accomplished by way of barques as well, and the image is used in many of the religious murals and carvings in temples and tombs.

From the eleventh century the Tree of Jesse has been portrayed in religious illuminations, manuscripts, wall paintings, wood and stone carvings ( including a grave marker ), stained glass windows, floor tiles and embroidery.

Most of their works had some religious significance, and their graves were filled with necklaces, ornate carvings made from bone or wood, decorated ceremonial pottery, ear plugs, and pendants.

The plethora of caves, sculptures and pagodas in Longmen Grottoes depict a definite " progression in style " with the early caves being simple and well shaped with carvings of statues of Buddha and religious people.

Huismans applied it jokingly to the unique masks and carvings with religious quality he had collected.

It has an important religious meaning and is repeated on many carvings and sculptures.

The early history of Irish art is generally considered to begin with early carvings found at sites such as Newgrange and is traced through Bronze Age artefacts, particularly ornamental gold objects, and the religious carvings and illuminated manuscripts of the medieval period.

The Dazu Rock Carvings () are a series of Chinese religious sculptures and carvings, dating back as far as the 7th century AD, depicting and influenced by Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist beliefs.

The carvings were listed as a World Heritage Site in 1999, citing "… their aesthetic quality, their rich diversity of subject matter, both secular and religious, and the light that they shed on everyday life in China during this period.

Yet another form of paifang, built mainly on religious and burial grounds, consists of plain white stone pillars and beams, with neither roof tiles nor any coloured decoration, but feature elaborate carvings created by master masons.

* Twenty-six, 15th century misericord seats in the chancel, with religious, secular and mythical carvings

Makonde wood carvings and began to order different pieces, from religious until political

The period of almost 5000 years over which carvings were made, the people of the late stoneage and early metal age, saw many cultural changes, including the adoption of metal tools and changes in areas such as boat building and fishing techniques ; therefore, the carvings show a wide variety of imagery and religious symbolism.

Arriving in the autumn of 1910, Rothenstein spent almost a year surveying India's cultural and religious sites, including the ancient Buddhist caves of Ajanta ; the Jain carvings of Gwalior ; and the Hindu panoply of Benares.

The monastery is the largest of several temples in the Wulin Mountains ( 武林山 ), which also features a large number of grottos and religious rock carvings, the most famous of which is the Feilai Feng ( 飞来峰 ; literally " the peak that flew hither ").

The subjects were often narrative religious scenes in vertical sections, largely derived from Late Antique paintings and carvings, as were those with more hieratic images derived from consular diptychs and other imperial art, such as the front and back covers of the Lorsch Gospels, which adapt a 6th century Imperial triumph to the triumph of Christ and the Virgin.

Angkor Wat is generally considered to be the largest religious stone monument in the world and much of the surface of this extraordinary temple is decorated with carvings in bas-relief of battle scenes, of triumphant processions, of religious scenes and of single or groups of female figures.

The Chavin culture is also noted for the spectacular murals and carvings found its main religious site of Chavin de Huantar ; these works include the Raimondi Stela, the Lanzón, and the Tello Obelisk.

These bags were used to hold sacred religious totems, pipes, and carvings, sometimes an effigy of a medicine horse or medicine buffalo, or some other totem of power.

Because of these carvings on the walls of the Red Chapel, archeologists have been given an insight to the active role the God ’ s Wife of Amun played in religious practices.