1. bas-relief - Noun
2. bas-relief - Adjective
Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bassrelief and basso-rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.
Source: Webster's dictionarybas relief
A bas-relief from this period in Taq Bostan depicts a complex hunting scene. Source: Internet
Before Borglum took his jackhammers to the Black Hills, he had started work on the largest shrine to white supremacy in the world — the bas-relief sculpture of Confederate leaders in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Source: Internet
Oxford English Dictionary Origin A tug of war between asuras and devas The bas-relief of the Churning of the Sea of Milk shows Vishnu in the centre, his turtle avatar Kurma below, asuras and devas to left and right, and apsaras and Indra above. Source: Internet
The Angkorian Khmer preferred to work in bas-relief, while their neighbors the Cham were partial to haut-relief. Source: Internet
The bas-relief at Angkor Wat shows a Lavo army as one of the subordinates to Angkor. Source: Internet
At the northern entrance, visitors can see a long bas-relief carved on a granite wall. Source: Internet