(a) Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness. (b) A work of sculpture of the above character. See Alto-rilievo.
The position of a man who is found at his standing in
the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a
deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; --
one of t...