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Author | : Paul Collins |
Publisher | : British Museum Press |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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"Commissioned by powerful kings between the ninth and seventh centuries BC, when the small kingdom of Assyria in northern Iraq expanded through conquest to dominate the area from Egypt to Iran, the carved images are imperssive and eloquent witnesses to their remarkable achievements. Paul Collins expresses the historical context of the sculptures and surveys the artistic traditions in which they are rooted."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : British Museum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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For almost three centuries, until 612 B.C., the small kingdom of Assyria dominated the Middle East, its empire at one point extending from Iran to Egypt. The story of those years--the triumphs of the Assyrian kings in war and peace, their exploits in the hunting field, and the gods who watched over them--were recorded in stone on the walls of a succession of royal palaces. These sculptures, offering eyewitness views of a long-lost civilization, were not rediscovered until the nineteenth century. The finest collection, transported with great difficulty to Europe, is now preserved at the British Museum. This book describes how the sculptures were found and what they meant to those who created them. It is both a richly illustrated history of Assyrian sculpture in general and a guide to the outstanding collections of the British Museum. For this Second Edition of Assyrian Sculpture, in a new format, the author has updated the text and bibliography.
Author | : Vaughn Emerson Crawford |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Calah (Extinct city) |
ISBN | : 0870992600 |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses monumental, majestic, and important works of art from the ancient world. In particular, a group of Assyrian sculptures from the Northwest Palace at Nimrud, which was constructed during the reign of Assurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), is remarkable both for its artistic excellence and for its technical skill. Excavated at Nimrud in the mid-nineteenth century by Sir Austen Henry Layard, an English archaeologist, the majority of these impressive, larger-than-life-size reliefs and sculptures came to the Metropolitan Museum in 1932 as gifts of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., one of the Museum's most generous supporters. Other Assyrian pieces were gifts to the Museum in 1917 from J. Pierpont Morgan, another major figure in the Metropolitan's history. An earlier donor, Benjamin Brewster, began the Museum's collection of Assyrian reliefs with a gift in 1884. In 1968, prior to the beginning of construction on the Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art, most of the Ancient Near Eastern works were placed in storage. Now, as the first stage in the reinstallation of permanent galleries for the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, the Assyrian sculptures may again be enjoyed in a gallery setting that reflects their original placement in the Northwest Palace at Nimrud.
Author | : Ada Cohen |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1584658177 |
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An insider's look at the iconography and history of Assyrian reliefs and the West's fascination with these ancient monuments
Author | : British Museum. Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard David Barnett |
Publisher | : McClelland & Stewart |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Art, Assyrian |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Malcolm Russell |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780300064599 |
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The strange story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School. This volume includes previously unpublished photographs, illustrations from rare nineteenth century sources, and passages from the diary of Lady Charlotte Guest (cousin of Austen Henry Layard).
Author | : Georges Perrot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Download A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mehmet-Ali Ataç |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2010-02-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0521517907 |
Download The Mythology of Kingship in Neo-Assyrian Art Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book, Mehmet-Ali Ataç argues that the palace reliefs of the Neo-Assyrian Empire hold a meaning deeper than simple imperial propaganda.