The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . lief is existed before the introduction of sculpture in theround, or when only rude figures of the deities hadbeen attempted. The Babylonians, Assyrians, andHittites practised it contemporaneously with sculp-ture in the round. The Egyptians, though they em-ployed a kind of low relief, especially on the interiorsof buildings, made a still greater use of Greeks, conceiving relief sculpture in its purelyplastic sense, achieved th
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . lief is existed before the introduction of sculpture in theround, or when only rude figures of the deities hadbeen attempted. The Babylonians, Assyrians, andHittites practised it contemporaneously with sculp-ture in the round. The Egyptians, though they em-ployed a kind of low relief, especially on the interiorsof buildings, made a still greater use of Greeks, conceiving relief sculpture in its purelyplastic sense, achieved the greatest mastery of the them it was used both as an ornament and as anintegral part of the plan when allied with strictly between high and low relief,they used the former betw-een the triglyphs, and inthe tympana of the temples, and the latter in friezes,tombstones, etc. Certain fixed principles governedthe <ireek relief: the spaces were adequately filled,the backgrounds never car\-ed, and it was a rulethat all heads should be at the same height fromthe base, whether the figures sat, rode, or stood {Iso-. The , Andrea Della Robbia, Hospital of the Innocents, Flohence well suited, also, to the portrayal of series of scenes,as in the bronze doors of various Itahan baptisteriesillustrating the Old and the New Testament. Fig-ures and objects in relief are generally worked out inthe same material as the background, though thereare exceptions to this rule in Greek art, and in thedecorative work of the Chinese and Japanese. Inthe larger reliefs marble, bronze, and terra-cotta areused exclusively; while in smaller works the preciousmetals and stones, ivory, stucco, enamel, wood, etc.,predominate. The reliefs of the Egyptians and-\ss\Tians, not highly plastic, were made moreeffective by the introduction of strong colours. Theearly Greeks also matle use of polycliromy, as in-stanced in the metope relief in the Museum ofPalermo. In G
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