Relief sculpture

Sculptures in which the ornaments or figures are attached to a background from which they stand out to a greater or lesser degree.

Basics Works of Art Curated Guides

Relief sculpture

Sculptures in which the ornaments or figures are attached to a background from which they stand out to a greater or lesser degree.

Basics Works of Art Curated Guides

Basics to get you started

Assyrian sculpture

The origins of Byzantine architecture

The Medieval and Renaissance Altarpiece

How one-point linear perspective works

Medieval goldsmiths

Working jade

Chinese Buddhist cave shrines

Works of Art

Donatello, Annunciation

1433–35

So-called Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus

late 2nd century B.C.E.

Andrea Pisano, South doors, Baptistery of Saint John, Florence

1330–36

Penataran, an eminent Javanese temple

c. 1197–1415

Portraits of Alexander the Great

Roman copy c. 1–50 C.E.

Roman copy c. 20 B.C.E.–20 C.E.

Roman copy c. 2nd century C.E.

c. 325 B.C.E.

305–281 B.C.E.

An Italian wooden chest in Romania

c. 1450

Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh

early 6th century

Master H.L., The Breisach Altarpiece

c. 1523–26

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