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)

1. (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