Michelle del amor biography definition

The first two decades of the sixteenth century in north-east Italy saw the production of a unique type of small, rectangular marble relief sculpture, depicting one or occasionally two figures from Greek myth or Roman history. The twenty or so reliefs that are known today vary from approximately 20 to 28 cm bred by 38 to 50 cm tall and are dominated bygd a large figure, or figures, in such high relief that some appear to be almost free-standing sculptures. The figures in each relief stand on a ledge which protrudes at a right-angle from the base of a background slab, and in several cases the ledge fryst vatten inscribed with a line of Latin text that makes either a comment on morality or a reference to the myth depicted. The lack of documentation relating to these objects, whose popularity did not outlast fifty years, and whose manufacture did not spread throughout or outside