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Definition of Stiacciato

Stiacciato
Stiacciato Sti*ac*cia"to, n. [It., crushed, flattened.] (Sculp.) The lowest relief, -- often used in Italian sculpture of the 15th and 16th centuries.

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- Stiacciato (Tuscan) or schiacciato (Italian for "pressed" or "flattened out") is a technique where a sculptor creates a very shallow relief sculpture with...
- especially his development of a very "low" or shallow relief style, called stiacciato (literally "flattened-out"), where all parts of the relief are low. This...
- the background trees are carved in low relief. This technique is called stiacciato. Paola Grifoni, Francesca Nannelli, Le statue dei santi protettori delle...
- in the Elizabethan Hardwick Hall. Shallow-relief, in Italian rilievo stiacciato or rilievo schicciato ("squashed relief"), is a very shallow relief, which...
- Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy. The work is an obvious homage to the stiacciato low reliefs of Donatello, as Vasari also noted, both in technique and...
- Saint George Freeing the Princess is a marble stiacciato bas-relief sculpture by Donatello, sculpted around 1416 or 1417. It was originally situated under...
- Baptism of Christ is a rectangular stiacciato marble relief of the Baptism of Christ, showing a crowd in the background, including a servant holding a...
- The Virgin and Child is a c.1426 stiacciato marble relief produced by a pupil or studio ****istant of the Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello, probably...
- The Pazzi Madonna is a rectangular "stiacciato" marble relief sculpture by Donatello, since 1886 in the sculpture collections of the Bode-Museum in Berlin...
- in the famous Gates of Paradise by Ghiberti or in the reliefs with the stiacciato technique for the altar of St. Anthony in Padua by Donatello. Architectural...