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==Gallery== <gallery widths="200px" heights="200px"> File:Göbekli Tepe reliefs of animals.jpg|Low relief from the [[Pre-Pottery Neolithic]] archaeological site of [[Göbekli Tepe]], believed to represent a [[bull]], a [[fox]], and a [[Crane (bird)|crane]], {{Circa|9,000 BC}} File:Warka_vase_(background_retouched).jpg|The [[Warka Vase]] of [[Sumer]], a very early survival works of narrative relief, {{Circa|3200}}–3000 BC. [[Alabaster]]. [[National Museum of Iraq]].<ref name=gardner>{{cite book|first=Fred S.|last=Kleiner|author2=Mamiya, Christin J.|year=2006|title=Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective – Volume 1|url=https://archive.org/details/gardnersartthrou00fred|url-access=registration|edition=12th|publisher=Thomson Wadsworth|location=Belmont, California, US|isbn=0-495-00479-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/gardnersartthrou00fred/page/20 20–21]}}</ref> File:Luxor temple 15.jpg|Sunk relief as low relief within a sunk outline, from the [[Luxor Temple]] in Egypt, carved in very hard [[granite]] File:Luxor Temple 9544.JPG|Low relief within a sunk outline, linear sunk relief in the [[hieroglyph]]s, and high relief (right), from Luxor File:Borobudur Relief Panel I.b119, 0972.jpg|Low to mid-relief, 9th century, [[Borobudur]]. The temple has 1,460 panels of reliefs narrating Buddhist scriptures. File:Qajari relief.jpg|A [[Persian Empire|Persian]] mid-relief (''mezzo-rilievo'') from the [[Qajar dynasty|Qajar]] era, at [[Tangeh Savashi]] in [[Iran]], which might also be described as two stages of low relief. This is a [[rock relief]] carved into a cliff. File:Rilievo funerario dei vibii, fine del I secolo ac..JPG|Roman funerary relief with frame at original level, but not sunk relief File:Warren Cup BM GR 1999.4-26.1 n2.jpg|The Roman [[Warren Cup]], silver [[repoussé]] work File:Yaxchilan Lintel 24.jpg|[[Yaxchilan Lintel 24|Lintel 24]] from the [[Maya art|Maya]] site of [[Yaxchilan]]. It depicts a [[bloodletting in Mesoamerica|bloodletting]] ritual performed by [[Lady Xoc]]. File:Naghsh-e rostam, Irán, 2016-09-24, DD 12.jpg|[[Rock relief]] at [[Naqsh-e Rustam]]; the Persian [[Sassanian]] emperor [[Shapur I|Shapur I]] (on horseback) with Roman emperors submitting to him File:Abadia de Saint-Pierre de Moissac - Portalada Sud de Moissac.JPG|The 12th century [[Romanesque art|Romanesque]] portal of ''[[Christ in Majesty]]'' at [[Moissac]] Abbey moves between low and high relief in a single figure. File:Triptych Harbaville Louvre OA3247 recto.jpg|[[Harbaville Triptych]], Byzantine ivory File:Relief-side view.jpg|Side view of mid-relief: ''Madonna and Child'', marble of {{circa|1500}}/1510 by an unknown north Italian sculptor File:Fontainebleau escalier roi5.jpg|The elaborate [[stucco]] (plaster) reliefs decorating the [[Chateau de Fontainebleau]] were hugely influential. Low-relief decorative [[frieze]] above. File:Adorazione dei pastori - Francesco Grassia.jpg|Baroque marble high-relief by [[Francesco Grassia]], 1670, Rome File:Robert Gould Shaw Memorial (36053).jpg|Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, 1897, Boston, combining free-standing elements with high and low relief File:Relief on building in Bishopsgate, London 2.JPG|A relatively modern high relief (depicting shipbuilding) in [[Bishopsgate]], [[London]]. Some elements jut out of the frame of the image. File:Bas relief at Ryerson University.jpg|[[Elizabeth Wyn Wood]]'s [[Bas-relief]] at [[Toronto Metropolitan University]] in [[Toronto]] File:Unakoti group of bas-relief sculptures, Tripura, India.jpg|Colossal Hindu [[rock relief]]s at [[Unakoti]], [[Tripura]], India File:Grave relief of Demetria and Pamphile (Ca. 325-310 BC) (4454381607).jpg|High relief of [[Funerary naiskos of Demetria and Pamphile|Demetria and Pamphile]]. Many details are detached entirely. </gallery>
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