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Author Winter, Irene.

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

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 639 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 34.1
Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 34.1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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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Subject Middle East -- Antiquities.
Middle East.
Antiquities.
Art, Ancient -- Middle East.
Art, Ancient.
Sculpture, Ancient -- Middle East.
Sculpture, Ancient.
Visual communication -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500.
Visual communication.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Social archaeology -- Middle East.
Social archaeology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Of the First Millennium B.C.E.
Other Form: Print version: On art in the ancient near east. The First Millennium BCE. vol 1. Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV 2009 9789004172371 (OCoLC)310157561
ISBN 9789047425847 (electronic book)
9047425847 (electronic book)