#relief carving

• High relief — A genre of relief sculpture in which the figures or decorative motifs are highly prominent, standing out strongly from the background without completely detaching from it (projecting by more than half of their true volume); a work executed in this sculptural style.
• High relief — A unified form or consolidated variant (spelled without a hyphen) for 'alto-relief'; a genre of relief sculpture in which figures, characters, or decorative motifs protrude strongly, standing out three-dimensionally from the background by more than half of their real volume, without completely detaching from the base panel.