Intaglio
Intaglio derives from the Italian tagliare to cut, preceded by in. It refers to a number of techniques in art, applied to many different materials, which all have in common that the image is created by cutting, carving or engraving into a flat surface, as opposed to a relief, (Latin: levo/relevo, to lift up) where the image is what is left when the background has been cut away to leave the image apparently "lifted-up" above the background. The term may also refer to objects made using these techniques:
- wikipedia:Intaglio (printmaking), a group of printmaking techniques with an incised image
- wikipedia:Intaglio (jewellery), similar techniques in jewelry (most likely meaning for "an intaglio")
- wikipedia:Intaglio (sculpture) is also known as sunken-relief
- wikipedia:Intaglio (burial mound), a similar technique for decorating burial mounds with geoglyphs
- wikipedia:Blythe Intaglios, large Native American designs on the ground in California
- In wood carving, more correctly known in English as wikipedia:Inlay
"Bright and Shiny" Fact
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- A method of detecting conterfeit money
Intaglio printing is used to print money in the United States. If you look closely at American money, you should be able to detect that the ink "sits on the paper" rather than being fused into the paper(by laser printers).
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