On art in the ancient Near East. Volume I, Of the First Millennium B.C.E. / Irene J. Winter.

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Winter, Irene [author.]

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TextSeries: Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 34.1.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xii, 639 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789047425847
9047425847

Other title:

Of the First Millennium B.C.E

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: On art in the ancient near east. The First Millennium BCE. vol 1.DDC classification:

709.394 23

LOC classification:

DS56 .W56 2010
DS56 .O5eb vol. 1

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Contents:

Introduction; Acknowledgments; THE ASSYRIAN PALACE AND RELIEF CARVING; Chapter One Royal Rhetoric and the Development of H istorical Narrative in Neo-Assyrian Reliefs; Chapter Two Art in Empire: The Royal Image and the Visual Dimensions of Assyrian Ideology; Chapter Three Le Palais imaginaire: Scale and Meaning in the Iconography of Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seals; Chapter Four Ornament and the "Rhetoric of Abundance" in Assyria; BRONZE AND IVORY/LUXURY GOODS; Chapter Five Phoenician and North Syrian Ivory Carving in Historical Context: Questions of Style and Distribution.

Summary: Winter (art history, Harvard University) presents fifteen essays that were published over a thirty-five year period on the art of the Assyrian empire, North Syria and the Phoenicians from the third to the first millennium B.C.E. She emphasizes the importance of seeing the artifacts as part of the whole of the culture, to be studied along with archaeological and literary information. The first group of articles focuses on Assyrian relief carvings, often on mythical or historical subjects. The second covers luxury goods of bronze and ivory, which are looked at in terms of art and trade with outs.

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Winter (art history, Harvard University) presents fifteen essays that were published over a thirty-five year period on the art of the Assyrian empire, North Syria and the Phoenicians from the third to the first millennium B.C.E. She emphasizes the importance of seeing the artifacts as part of the whole of the culture, to be studied along with archaeological and literary information. The first group of articles focuses on Assyrian relief carvings, often on mythical or historical subjects. The second covers luxury goods of bronze and ivory, which are looked at in terms of art and trade with outs.

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