BIG-DIMENSION RONDE-BOSSE SCULPTURE AND BAS-RELIEFS IN THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD
BIG-DIMENSION RONDE-BOSSE SCULPTURE AND BAS-RELIEFS IN THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD

Summary/Abstract: In Neolithic, in big-dimension statuary, the first type was the one of menhir-statues: blocks of stone with one of the faces conventionally rendering a simplified feminine or masculine silhouette, in a basrelief which is a little high; the second type is the one of monumental statues carved in volume, with the same steatopygia as it is the case of statues (thus, all the types of rondebosse sculptures had the same cult destination). The types of reliefs are those that decorate ceremonial structures (menhirs), cultic ones (temples, but also altars, stelae) and funerary ones (tombs). The present material will illustrate ronde-bosse and bas-relief sculpture with representative examples from different regions of Europe, Close or Far East up to the Americs, recording similarities and also peculiar aspects of each region, regarding shapes, dimensions, materials, ornaments.

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