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thumb|250px|Donatello's Saint George Freeing the Princess of 1417, the first known stiacciato relief

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Within Vinony's link graph, stiacciato is referenced by 24 other articles, and connects out to Tomb of Cardinal Rainaldo Brancacci, Saint George Freeing the Princess and Leonardo da Vinci.

Vinony files it under Donatello and Sculpture techniques.

Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.

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Stiacciato

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  • The technique
  • Donatello and his successors
  • Limitations
  • References

thumb|250px|Donatello's Saint George Freeing the Princess of 1417, the first known stiacciato relief

Stiacciato (Tuscan) or schiacciato (Italian for "pressed" or "flattened out") is a technique where a sculptor creates a very shallow relief sculpture with carving only millimetres deep. The rilievo stiacciato is primarily associated with Donatello (1386–1466).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “stiacciato” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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