Intaglio
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Intaglio (printmaking) is a printmaking technique in which the image is incised into a surface.
A conceptually similar, but different meaning of the term Intaglio is applied to burial mounds. While most common are burial mounds which are raised above the natural surface of the terrain, there are much more rare forms where they are left as indents below the natural terrain. These are typically in some effigy shape such as that of a cat which can be seen in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, where it is the last remaining intaglio mound in the state.
See also: Nazca Lines
Intaglio is also the name of a vector-based drawing program for Mac OS X, published by Purgatory Design (http://www.purgatorydesign.com/Intaglio/index.html)