(n.) On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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