VOCABULARY TERM: REGISTER

For The Hartford Art School Medal sculptor Henri Kreis choose narrative relief of human figures on multiple base lines. The use of narrative relief is of ancient Egyptian origin most notable in the Roman Trajan’s Column of 113 AD. The Art School used Kreis’s design as the obverse for three different medals. Medal photo Medallic Art Company.

Register. The use of multiple ground lines and multiple figures and/or scenes of events in continuous strips. Register is a medallic form of narrative relief, sometimes called continuous relief. A register in medallic form extends from one scene into another and occasionally crossing over a ground line or two. . The technique of narrative relief is quite old, widely employed in both Egyptian and Roman art. The sequence of events and figures is usually in chronological order; as an art technique it presents a wealth of detail with a maximum of clarity. Egyptian sunken relief is often in narrative form, however the most famous narrative relief in continuous form is the Trajan's Column with a 625 foot band (4-foot wide) winding up a 125-foot column.
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