Crossword-Solution: BASRELIEF 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The columns of the Cathedral porch were still supported on featureless porphyry lions worn smooth by generations of loungers; and above the octagonal baptistery ran a fantastic basrelief wherein the spirals of the vine framed an allegory of men and monsters symbolising, in their mysterious conflicts, the ever-recurring Manicheism of the middle ages.

Williams Jackson's report to the A.I.A., for details of these basrelief photographs.] Desiring to examine some of the work far overhead, Billie clambered up on a convenient pedestal in order to look more closely.

There is, indeed, one gigantic one, that of Count Ugolino, of which Michael Angelo made a basrelief, and which Sir Joshua Reynolds ought not to have painted.

Our surest guide to the subject of a basrelief or statue is study of the physical type considered as symbolical of spiritual quality.

The other basrelief shows a group of grave men and youths, clasping hands with loveliest interlacement; the placid sentiment of human fellowship translated into harmonies of sculptured form.