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thumb|250px|Donatello's Saint George Freeing the Princess of 1417, the first known stiacciato relief

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Contents
  • 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.