Assyrian Palace Sculptures

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : British Museum Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assyrian Palace Sculptures written by Paul Collins and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assyrian Sculpture written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0870992600
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assyrian Reliefs and Ivories in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Vaughn Emerson Crawford and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1980 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1584658177
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II written by Ada Cohen and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's look at the iconography and history of Assyrian reliefs and the West's fascination with these ancient monuments

Author : Ada Cohen
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611689988
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace written by Ada Cohen and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best-known images of the ancient Near East is an intriguing nineteenth-century color lithograph reconstructing the throne room of an Assyrian palace. Executed shortly after the archaeological rediscovery of Assyria, a land theretofore known only from the Bible, it was published by the most famous among early excavators of Assyrian ruins, Austen Henry Layard. Over time and despite criticisms, the picture has shaped the understanding and reception of ancient Mesopotamian architecture and architectural decoration. Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace studies this influential image in depth, both at the time of its creation in London in the eventful year 1848 and in terms of its afterlife. A hidden inscription reveals unsuspected contributions by the renowned architect-designer Owen Jones and his colleague the architect-Egyptologist Joseph Bonomi. Also unexpected is the involvement of an enigmatic German artist who later emigrated to America and whose previous career in Europe had been lost to scholarship. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of art history and the ancient Near East. It will also be of relevance to museum visitors and others interested in the ancient world in general, in the art of the nineteenth century, and in design and historical reconstruction.

Author : Richard David Barnett
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assyrian Sculpture in the British Museum written by Richard David Barnett and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1975 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Malcolm Russell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300064599
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Nineveh to New York written by John Malcolm Russell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Cyril John Gadd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stones of Assyria written by Cyril John Gadd and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mehmet-Ali Ataç
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521517907
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mythology of Kingship in Neo-Assyrian Art written by Mehmet-Ali Ataç and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Mehmet-Ali Ataç argues that the palace reliefs of the Neo-Assyrian Empire hold a meaning deeper than simple imperial propaganda.