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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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