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stiacciato
Sign in to savethumb|250px|Donatello's Saint George Freeing the Princess of 1417, the first known stiacciato relief
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- The technique
- Donatello and his successors
- Limitations
- References
thumb|250px|Donatello's Saint George Freeing the Princess of 1417, the first known stiacciato relief
Stiacciato (Tuscan) or schiacciato (Italian for "pressed" or "flattened out") is a technique where a sculptor creates a very shallow relief sculpture with carving only millimetres deep. The rilievo stiacciato is primarily associated with Donatello (1386–1466).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “stiacciato” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.