id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8700 Relief - Wikipedia .html text/html 4449 334 69 In later Western art, until a 20th-century revival, low relief was used mostly for smaller works or combined with higher relief to convey a sense of distance, or to give depth to the composition, especially for scenes with many figures and a landscape or architectural background, in the same way that lighter colours are used for the same purpose in painting. Low relief may use any medium or technique of sculpture, stone carving and metal casting being most common. High relief thus uses essentially the same style and techniques as free-standing sculpture, and in the case of a single figure gives largely the same view as a person standing directly in front of a free-standing statue would have. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8700.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8700.txt