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Also Known As low relief • basso-relievo

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relief panel
Lorenzo Ghiberti: panel from Gates of Paradise
Churning of the ocean of milk
Bellerophon with his horse Pegasus, stone bas-relief; in the Palazzo Spada, Rome
Zaria: contemporary vernacular architecture
Hausa decorated building
yakshi
Daedalus and Icarus
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Maitani, Lorenzo: Orvieto Cathedral facade
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Psyche Abandoned, marble sculpture by Augustin Pajou, 1791.
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