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| Anonymous German sculptor Annunciation ca. 1480-1500 mother-of-pearl carved in relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Anonymous Italian sculptor Cameo - Neoclassical Woman ca. 1855-60 lava carved in relief Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Anonymous French sculptor Mythological Scene ca. 1680-1700 tortoiseshell carved in relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Anonymous Roman sculptor Cameo fragment - Theatrical Mask and Seated Figure geode carved in relief 2nd century AD Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Giovanni Bernardi The Battle of Pavia ca. 1531-35 rock-crystal carved in relief (commissioned by Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici in Rome) Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
The relief-carvings or castings grouped here – some anonymous and some attributable to individual artists – were created in Europe across many past centuries and each from a different medium or composed of a different material, which include the following –
mother-of-pearl
lava
tortoiseshell
geode
rock crystal
jade
silver
gold
brass
lead
boxwood
alabaster
plaster
aluminum
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| Berquin-Varangoz Workshop Portrait of Heber R. Bishop 1898 relief carved in jade Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| workshop of Guglielmo della Porta Flagellation of Christ ca. 1560 relief-plaque cast in silver Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Cesare Targone Virgin mourning the Dead Christ 1586-87 repoussé gold relief on obsidian background Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Anonymous Italian sculptor Sacrifice of Aaron ca. 1575-1600 relief-plaque cast in brass Harvard Art Museums |
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| Anonymous French sculptor Apollo and Diana ca. 1600 relief-plaque cast in lead Harvard Art Museums |
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| Anonymous German or Flemish sculptor Resurrection of Christ ca. 1600-1650 boxwood carved in relief Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Jacques Dubroeucq Dead Christ supported by God the Father ca. 1550 alabaster carved in relief Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Raymond Duchamp-Villon The Lovers 1913 plaster relief Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Jacob Berg Side-panel from The Gray Shop Oakland, California ca. 1930 relief-panel cast in aluminum Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |