Intaglio
A carving technique in which a design or image is cut below the surrounding surface rather than projecting outward from it.
Methods
Inlay
A process in which pieces of one material are fitted into recesses in another material to create a design, pattern, image, or contrasting surface.
High Relief
A form of relief sculpture in which approximately half or more of the natural circumference of the modeled forms projects from the background.
Indirect Carving
A method of carving in which a previously developed model is transferred into stone or wood by measurements, pointing, enlargement, or another system of reproduction.
Taille Indirecte
French term for indirect carving: transferring a previously resolved three-dimensional model into stone or wood through pointing or another measuring system.
Intaglio Indiretto
Italian term for indirect carving: transferring a previously developed model into stone or wood through pointing, measurement, or another copying method.
Taille Directe
French term for direct carving: carving the final block of stone or wood directly, with the sculpture resolved in the material rather than mechanically copied from a completed model.
Taglio Diretto
Italian term for direct carving: developing the sculpture directly in the final stone or wood rather than mechanically transferring a completed model.
Direct Carving
A method of carving in which the sculptor develops the sculpture directly in the final block of stone or wood rather than reproducing a fully resolved model through pointing or another transfer system.
Disegno
The Renaissance idea of drawing-as-design — the intellectual concetto underlying all the arts.