Question

Picture 1:A stone medallion with shallow carvings. Picture2: A statue of two Egyptians. The woman has one arm around the man's waist and the other on his arm.
Picture 3: A large piece of stone with deep carvings showing a man on horseback and soldiers walking beside him.
Examine the three pictures above. Which type of relief is each?
a.
Picture 1: sunken relief; Picture 2: freestanding sculpture; Picture 3: high relief
b.
Picture 1: high relief; Picture 2: sunken relief; Picture 3: high relief
c.
Picture 1: low relief; Picture 2: freestanding sculpture; Picture 3: high relief
d.
Picture 1: sunken relief; Picture 2: high-standing sculpture; Picture 3: low relief

Answer 1

c.

Picture 1: low (bas-) relief — shallow carving barely projects from the background.
Picture 2: freestanding (in-the-round) sculpture — fully modeled on all sides, not attached to a background.
Picture 3: high relief — deeply carved figures that project strongly from the background.