Across egypt , sphinxes appeared everywhere in sculptures , reliefs and paintings , often depicted as a potent symbol of royalty and the sacred power of the sun .
I visited the still-scaffolded monument last week : up close you can see why it needed some work , especially on the reliefs that surround it and depict scenes of artillery warfare .
The savagely beautiful reliefs in the british museum were carved around the start of the 8th century ad , when europe was in the dark ages .
收藏在大英博物馆的这幅充满野性魅力的浮雕,大约刻于公元8世纪初,这一时期欧洲还处于黑暗时期。
The walls and balustrades are decorated with fine low reliefs .
墙壁和栏杆都是装饰以优良的低浮雕。
His sculptures included " back " , a series of plaster reliefs cast in bronze .
包括他的雕塑《背影》,是一系列石膏浮雕铸造的铜像。
The fascination of my visit to the scaffolding , however , was not so much standing on the stone blocks that support the gun as peering very closely at the reliefs below .