stiacciato
Italian
editEtymology
editA Tuscan form of schiacciato (“flat, crushed”), the past participle of schiacciare (“to flatten, crush”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editstiacciato m (plural stiacciati)
- (art) A form of bas relief developed by Donatello with very little variation in depth of carving, where the sense of depth is given by perspective rather than actual three-dimensionality.
Further reading
edit- stiacciato on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- stiacciato on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it