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<p>[QUOTE="blooey, post: 1086294, member: 12007"]Well, sorta. Really doesn't have anything to do with the "back"</p><p><br /></p><p>Definition from wikipedia:</p><blockquote><p><b>Bas</b>-<b>relief</b> <i>is a type of <b>relief</b> (sculpture) that has less depth to the faces and figures than they actually have, when measured proportionately (to scale). This technique keeps the natural shapes of the figures and allows the work to be seen from many angles without twisting the figures themselves.</i></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="blooey, post: 1086294, member: 12007"]Well, sorta. Really doesn't have anything to do with the "back" Definition from wikipedia: [INDENT][B]Bas[/B]-[B]relief[/B] [I]is a type of [B]relief[/B] (sculpture) that has less depth to the faces and figures than they actually have, when measured proportionately (to scale). This technique keeps the natural shapes of the figures and allows the work to be seen from many angles without twisting the figures themselves.[/I][/INDENT][/QUOTE]
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