relievo

[ ri-lee-voh, ril-yev-oh ]

noun

, plural re·lie·vos.

1. Obsolete. relief ²( defs 2, 3 ).

relievo

/ rɪˈliːvəʊ; rɪlˈjeɪvəʊ /

noun

1. another name for relief

Word History and Origins

Origin of relievo¹

1615–25; < Italian rilievo relief ², derivative of rilevare to raise < Latin relevāre; relieve

Word History and Origins

Origin of relievo¹

from Italian, literally: raised work

Example Sentences

One can just feel the inauthenticity of the Caverne du Pont d’Arc cave paintings, of the Relievo Van Goghs, of the “new” Rembrandt.

From Slate

But no, you’re looking at a work from the Relievo Collection, an odd package offered by the Van Gogh Museum to collectors and institutions who would like nine of Van Gogh’s greatest hits on their walls, at a cool quarter-million dollars for the bunch, proving that even for the wealthiest people art can be difficult to procure and prohibitively expensive.

From Slate

Perhaps those others are just as happy with a Relievo Collection Van Gogh on their walls?

From Slate

At one moment I stood in admiration at the skill with which sundry sheets and napkins were wound round a wooden figure, to give it a chaste and classic appearance, which figure—supposed to represent Charity, Fortitude, Prudence, or Plenty—was placed as a basso relievo on the triumphal arch, where it might have done for any goddess or virtue in the mythology or calendar.

From Project Gutenberg

He is supposed by some to have been instructed by Coreggio, an assertion which cannot wholly be discredited, when we cast our eye upon some instances of his foreshortening, and of his fine relievo.

From Project Gutenberg