Mesopotamia : ancient art and architecture
| 1. Verfasser: |
Bahrani, Zainab, 1962-
, [VerfasserIn]
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|---|---|
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London :
Thames & Hudson,
2017.
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| Ausgabe: | First published |
| Umfang/Format: |
376 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 29 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Syria |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : becoming art
- The search for Origins : Mesopotamia and the cradle of civilization
- Uruk : the arts of civilization
- Early Dynastic Sumer : images for people, temples for gods
- Early Dynastic Sumer : art for eternity
- Art of the Akkadian Dynasty
- Gudea : royal portraits and the lifespan of images
- The third Dynasty of Ur
- The age of Hammurabi
- Kassite and Assyrian art at the end of the Bronze Age
- Assyrian art : narrative and empire
- Assyrian art in context
- Babylonian art
- Achaemenid Persian art
- Alexander in Babylon and Hellenism in Mesopotamia : Seleucid and Parthian art
- Epilogue : the past in the present.
