The "Panathanaic Procession," at the British Museum, has very different levels of "haute" (high) and "bas" (low) relief than it looks like in slides and books. The sculptures tell more of a visual story about depth and space than I thought. Some background elements are super shallow (bas) while the foreground is much higher (haute). Even the fingers on a couple of the hands have a similar layering and change in depth. There is also a layering that I didn't think was there until I saw it in person.
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