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20 January, 2006
Pictures of St. Petersburg's Relief SculpturesPhoto Gallery by Veselo
High Relief Sculpture: Atlantes and Caryatids.
Figures of Atlantes and Caryatids are very widely used in the decoration of facades of the St. Petersburg's buildings in the high reliefs. They represent men or female figures that tower above a flat background of a building and bear function to support some part of the architecture.
It's a modeled form projects out of a flat background no more than on half of the full relief. Bas relief can content a human faces, nature and etc.
Its just more pictures of St. Petersburg's Relief Sculptures
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