Examples of sunk relief in the following topics:
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- Ancient Egyptians created both monumental and smaller sculptures, using the technique of sunk relief.
- In this technique, the image is made by cutting the relief sculpture into a flat surface, set within a sunken area shaped around the image.
- Large statues of deities (other than the pharaoh) were not common, although deities were often shown in paintings and reliefs.
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- .— Winston ChurchillThe outcome of the battle was a strategic victory for the Allies—the German blockade failed—but at great cost: 3,500 merchant ships and 175 warships were sunk for the loss of 783 U-boats.
- The focus on U-boat successes, the "aces" and their scores, the convoys attacked, and the ships sunk, serves to camouflage the Kriegsmarine's manifold failures.
- In particular, this was because most of the ships sunk by U-boat were not in convoys, but sailing alone, or had become separated from convoys.
- Victory was achieved at a huge cost: between 1939 and 1945, 3,500 Allied merchant ships (totalling 14.5 million gross tons) and 175 Allied warships were sunk and some 72,200 Allied naval and merchant seamen lost their lives.
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- Navy battleships were damaged, with four sunk.
- Only three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the battleships Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk off the coast of Malaya, causing British Prime Minister Winston Churchill later to recollect,
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- Culture flourished during the Roman Republic with the emergence of great authors such as Cicero and Lucretius and
the development of Roman relief and portraiture sculpture.
- Rather than create
free-standing works depicting heroic exploits from history or mythology as the
Greeks had, the Romans produced historical works in relief.
- For a wider section
of the population, moulded relief decoration in pottery vessels and small figurines
were produced in great quantities and were often of great quality.
- Advancements were also
made in relief sculptures, often depicting Roman victories.
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- Decoration included reliefs (bas relief and sunken relief) of images and hieroglyphic text and sculpture, including obelisks, figures of gods (sometimes in sphinx form), and votive figures.
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- All four of Japan's large aircraft carriers—Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu, part of the six-carrier force that had attacked Pearl Harbor six months earlier—and a heavy cruiser were sunk, while the U.S. lost only the carrier Yorktown and a destroyer.
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- As part of the naval operations surrounding the battle, the Japanese super-battleship Yamato was sunk, and both sides lost considerable numbers of ships and aircraft.
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- Pediments in the Doric style were decorated with figures in
relief in early examples; however, by the time the sculptures on the Parthenon
were created, many pediment decorations were freestanding.
- Although most architectural
elements of the Parthenon belong to the Doric Order, a continuous sculptured
frieze in low relief that sits above the architrave belongs to the Ionic style.
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- Otranto was besieged and fell in the October 1068; in the same year, the Normans besieged Bari itself and, after defeating the Byzantines in a series of battles in Apulia, and after any attempt of relief had failed, the city surrendered in April 1071, ending the Byzantine presence in southern Italy.