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The Back Series is a series of four bas-relief sculptures, by Henri Matisse. They are Matisse's largest and most monumental sculptures. The plaster originals are housed in the Musée Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France. They were modeled between 1909 and 1930.
Today, the relief has medallions hanging off the lower outerwear of the figure in the bottom left, but these are not shown in the sketch; today the feathers in the headdress have pointed ends and veins all the way to the ends of the feathers, while the sketch misses these details; today the relief shows that the standing figure has no smile ...
The Venus of Laussel is an 18.11-inch-high (46.0-centimetre) limestone bas-relief of a nude woman. It is painted with red ochre and was carved into the limestone of a rock shelter (Abri de Laussel) in the commune of Marquay, in the Dordogne department of south-western France.
This initial relief was subsequently reworked into a "bas-relief with anthropomorphic figures." [B 13] The block in question probably originated from a funerary monument, [C 2] and the sculpture was therefore carved on a previously used block. [B 11] The bas-relief, which originally measured 1.20 m by 0.685 m, depicted the sacrifice of a bull.
British Greek art scholar Martin Robertson notes that both women can be seen wearing the tubular peplos garment common to the Classical period. According to the descriptive text found in the Atlas database of the exhibited works of art at the Louvre, the women also are wearing a kekryphalos , a hairnet in the Greco-Roman hairstyle , and appear ...
Positioned in the entrance lounge, and behind the reception desk, this 10 ft 5 in (3.175 m) × 16 ft (4.877 m) bas-relief was carved in situ from Portland stone by Eric Gill with Laurie Cribb carrying out the lettering. The bas-relief has the inscription "There is good hope that thou mayest see thy friends", and "Homer/Ody" in smaller capitals.
His stylized bas-relief sculptures in the Theatre des Champs Elysées (1910–12) blended with the new Art Deco architectural style. Important sculptors in the early century included Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), who began as a painter and switched to sculpture, He particularly portrayed, in natural and sensual form, the female nude.
A low relief carving of a Viking ship Carving tools and a mallet. In wood carving relief carving is a type in which figures or patterns are carved in a flat panel of wood; the same term is also used for carving in stone, ivory carving and various other materials. The figures project only slightly from the background rather than standing freely.