stiacciato

Italian

Donatello. Banchetto di Erode, 1427, detail.

Etymology

A Tuscan form of schiacciato (“flat, crushed”), the past participle of schiacciare (“to flatten, crush”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stjatˈt͡ʃa.to/
Rhymes: -ato
Hyphenation: stiac‧cià‧to

Noun

stiacciato m (plural stiacciati)

(art) A form of bas relief developed by Donatello with very little variation in depth of carving, where the sense of depth is given by perspective rather than actual three-dimensionality.

Further reading

stiacciato on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
stiacciato on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

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