rilievo legal definition of rilievo. rilievo synonyms by the Free Online Law Dictionary.

Financial assistance provided to the indigent by the government. The redress, or benefit, given by a court to an individual who brings a legal action.

The relief sought in a lawsuit might, for example, be the return of property wrongfully taken by another, compensation for an injury in the form of damages, or enforcement of a contract.

relief n. generic term for all types of benefits which an order or judgment of court can give a party to a lawsuit, including money award, injunction, return of property, property title, alimony, and dozens of other possibilities. (See: judgment)

RELIEF, Eng. law. A relief was an incident to every feudal tenure, by way of fine or composition with the lord for taking up the estate which was lapsed or fallen in by the death of the last tenant. At one time the amount was arbitrary; but afterwards the relief of a knight's fee became fixed at one hundred shillings. 2 Bl. Com. 65.

RELIEF, practice. That assistance which a court of chancery will lend to a party to annul a contract tinctured with fraud, or where there has been a mistake or accident; courts of equity grant relief to all parties in cases where they have rights, ex aequo et bono, and modify and fashion that relief according to circumstances.

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Wohl draws close and clever attention to the way in which writers of the period chose the words by which they described the arts and in what contexts they evaluated them, especially the distinctions they drew between the words rilievo (the illusion of roundness) and ornato (the elements of formal embellishment) and the additional impact of the features of classicism and realism. The Aesthetics of Italian Renaissance Art: A Reconsideration of Style by MACK, CHARLES R. / Renaissance Quarterly While rilievo -- prominence -- is created either by making a pale mark or leaving the surface untouched, ombre are created by the repeated tracings of the artist's hand (Cennini, 10). Art and humanism in early Renaissance Padua: Cennini, Vergerio and ... by Bolland, Andrea / Renaissance Quarterly Il disegno fu lo imitare il piu bello della natura in tutte le figure cosi scolpite come dipinte; la qual parte viene dallo aver la mano e l'ingegno, che rapporti tutto quello che vede l'occhio in sul piano, o disegni o in su fogli o tavola o altro piano, giustissimo ed a punto; e cosi di rilievo nella scultura. Gendered style in Italian art criticism from Michelangelo to Malvasia by Sohm, Philip / Renaissance Quarterly More results

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Wohl draws close and clever attention to the way in which writers of the period chose the words by which they described the arts and in what contexts they evaluated them, especially the distinctions they drew between the words rilievo (the illusion of roundness) and ornato (the elements of formal embellishment) and the additional impact of the features of classicism and realism.

The Aesthetics of Italian Renaissance Art: A Reconsideration of Style by MACK, CHARLES R. / Renaissance Quarterly

While rilievo -- prominence -- is created either by making a pale mark or leaving the surface untouched, ombre are created by the repeated tracings of the artist's hand (Cennini, 10).

Art and humanism in early Renaissance Padua: Cennini, Vergerio and ... by Bolland, Andrea / Renaissance Quarterly

Il disegno fu lo imitare il piu bello della natura in tutte le figure cosi scolpite come dipinte; la qual parte viene dallo aver la mano e l'ingegno, che rapporti tutto quello che vede l'occhio in sul piano, o disegni o in su fogli o tavola o altro piano, giustissimo ed a punto; e cosi di rilievo nella scultura.

Gendered style in Italian art criticism from Michelangelo to Malvasia by Sohm, Philip / Renaissance Quarterly

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