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The art and architecture of the ancient Orient / Henri Frankfort.

Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection N5345 .F7 1996
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Frankfort, Henri, 1897-1954.
Series:
Yale University Press Pelican history of art
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Art, Ancient--Middle East.
Art, Ancient.
Middle East.
Art--Middle East.
Art.
Physical Description:
483 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Edition:
Fifth edition / with supplementary notes and additional bibliography and abbreviations by Michael Roaf and Donald Matthews.
Place of Publication:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1996.
Contents:
Map of Ancient Near East 14/15
Part 1 Mesopotamia
1. The Emergence of Sumerian Art: The Protoliterate Period (circa 3500-3000 B.C.) 17
Architecture 18
Applied Sculpture and Relief 24
Sculpture in the Round 31
Commemorative Relief 33
Cylinder Seals 35
2. The Early Dynastic Period (circa 3000-2340 B.C.) 39
Architecture 42
Sculpture in the Round 45
Engraving and Relief 66
Glyptic Art 77
3. The Akkadian Period (2340-2180 B.C.) 83
4. The Neo-Sumerian Period (2125-2025 B.C.) and the Period of Isin, Larsa, and Babylon (2025-1594 B.C.) 93
Lagash 93
The Third Dynasty of Ur 101
The Isin-Larsa Period 107
Hammurabi of Babylon 119
5. The Art of the Kassite Dynasty (circa 1600-1100 B.C.) 127
6. The Beginnings of Assyrian Art (circa 1350-1000 B.C.) 131
7. The Late Assyrian Period (circa 1000-612 B.C.) 143
Architecture 143
Sculpture in the Round 152
Relief and Painting 156
Applied Arts 194
8. The Neo-Babylonian Period (circa 612-539 B.C.) 201
Part 2 The Peripheral Regions
9. Asia Minor and the Hittites 207
Anatolia up to the Middle of the Second Millennium B.C. 207
The Hittite Empire (circa 1400-1200 B.C.) 215
Architecture 215
Sculpture 221
10. The Levant in the Second Millennium B.C. 239
Egyptian Predominance (2000-1800 B.C.) and Babylonian Penetration (1800-1700 B.C.) 243
The Mitannian Era (circa 1450-1360 B.C.) 248
The Hittite and Ramessid Era (1360-1150 B.C.) 262
11. Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria: North Syrian Art (850-650 B.C.) 279
Architecture 282
Sculpture 290
Phoenician and Syrian Art 310
Ivories 313
Metalwork 322
12. The Art of Ancient Persia 333
The Luristan Bronzes 340
Achaemenian Art 348
Architecture 350
Sculpture 363.
Notes:
Originally published: Harmondsworth, Eng. : Penguin Books, 1970, in series: The Pelican history of art ; PZ7)
Includes bibliographical references (. [441]-461) and index.
ISBN:
0300064705
OCLC:
59641705

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