The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient
by Henri Frankfort
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Traces the development of Mesopotamian art from Sumerian times to the late Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods. This text also covers the art and architecture of Asia Minor and the Hittites, of the Levant in the second millennium BC, of the Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria, and of Ancient Persia.Tags
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This book traces the development of Mesopotamian art from the emergence of Sumerian art 3500 - 3000 B.C., to the late Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods 1000 - 539 B.C. In a secon section he covers the art and architecture of Asia Minor and the Hittites, of the Levant in the Second Millenium B.C., of the Aramaeans and the Phoenicians in Syria, and of Ancient Persia.
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- The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient
- Original publication date
- 1954 (1st edition) (1st edition); 1970 (4th edition) (4th edition); 1996 (5th edition) (5th edition)
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- Mesopotamia; Syria; Assyria
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- Strictly speaking, a history of the art of the ancient Near East has never been written. (Introduction)
Mesopotomia is ill defined. To the west it fades into the emptiness of Arabia; in the north it can barely be separated from the fertile plains of north Syria, with which it is, indeed, connected by a main artery of caravan tr... (show all)affic along the Euphrates. (main body) - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)We cannot, in this volume, attempt to deal with the latter movement; but Achaemenian art was an important link in the chain of transmission, since in it, at the close of the period in which the Near East had been the centre of highest culture, many traditions, both of barbarians and of Greeks, assumed a new form.
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