Crossword-Solution: RILIEVO 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

One of the soft, but unpleasant missiles just alluded to flew by the master's head one morning, and flattened itself against the wall, where it adhered in the form of a convex mass in alto rilievo.

The Egyptians also were perfectly acquainted with working in cameo (anaglyph) and rilievo, as may be seen in the cavo rilievo of the finest of their hieroglyphs.

Amongst all whose all-praiseworthy workes (which are almost infinite, especially in this point of motion) there are divers mysteries of Christe’s passion, of his doing, but chiefly a crucifix called Mount Calvary at the Sepulchre of Varallo; where he hath made admirable horses and strange angels, not only in painting, but also in plasticke, of a kinde of earth wrought most curiously with his own hand cleane rounde”—[_di tutto rilievo_]—“through all the figures.

The first of these, of course, is the Assumption of the Madonna, of which Caccia says there was a representation of her “_Come ascese in Cielo_, _con le statue delli dodeci Apostoli intorno di rilievo_,” and there may very well have been a benefactor or so in addition.

Thinking that perhaps the girl was praying, the warden's wife waited some minutes, but no sound greeted her; and so motionless was the figure, that it might have been only an alto rilievo carved on the wall.