Intaglio vs Toreutics - What's the difference?
intaglio | toreutics |
A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
* 1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :
Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.
The art of making relief or intaglio designs, especially by chasing, carving or embossing in metal
As a verb intaglio
is .As a noun toreutics is
the art of making relief or intaglio designs, especially by chasing, carving or embossing in metal.intaglio
English
(wikipedia intaglio)Noun
- On a wooden pub sign daringly taken, one daylight raid, by a drunken Bartley Gobbitch, across which still survives in intaglio the legend SNIPE AND SHAFT, Teddy Bloat is mincing bananas with a great isosceles knife.