Flat but not squashed: Donatello's Ascension is the centrepiece of a rewarding exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute on low-relief carving in the early renaissance.

Apollo | March 1, 2005| | Copyright

In Tuscany, schiacciata is a type of bread that is squashed flat before baking. In art, the word describes a form of shallow relief carving, rilievo schiacciato, a technique generally accepted as having been invented by Donatello in the early fifteenth century. It is not a very happy term, since 'squashed relief' suggests a sculptor taking a rolling pin and flattening out a high relief. The technique demands instead delicate chiselling and engraving of the stone to suggest modelling and recession in space in a depth of relief often little thicker than a postcard. It requires ...

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