Near Eastern Art

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Near Eastern Art
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Cone mosaic Uruk
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Vase Uruk

• 3500-3000BCE
• alabaster

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Uruk vase

• 3500-3000BCE
• 3 registers
• Festival

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Uruk female

• Eyebrows meet-mesopot.
• Cheeks bulge
• Eyebrows inlaid

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Ziggurat what can you compare this to?
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UR
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Tell Asmar

• hieratic

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Sumer
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Sargon of Akkad
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Gudea seated

• Diorite
• 2100BCE
• patron

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Standard of Ur

• Poses repeat
• Horses
• Profile
• 2300BCE

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Stele Naramsin 2200 bce

• to make ones mark

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Hammurabi of Babylon
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Hittites Lion Gate
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Assyrians
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Ashurnasirpal II at war
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Akkad (Sargon I and II)
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• Hieratic scale
• Registers
• stylized

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Chaldeans/Neo-Babylonians

• Nebuchadnezzar

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Ishtar Gate
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• Entrance
• To Temple of Marduk

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Persian art

• Persian expansion
• 525 BCE conquered Egypt
• Indus to Danube
• Delian League
• Ended with Battle of Issus defeat at hands of
  Alexander the Great

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• Palace at Persepolis
• Vast hall 60X200
• Audience hallapadana (36 columns 40 high)

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Bull capitals were unique to Persia
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rhyton
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Egypt

• Hieroglyphics
• Rosetta Stone-Champollion
• 3500BCE
• Predynastic period
• Old Kingdom
• Middle Kingdom
• New Kingdom

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PreDynastic

• Upper and lower

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• Horusfalcon like god
• Hathorgoddess favorable to Narmer
• Name in the palace
• Narmer with cobra crown of Lower Egypt
• This art sets standards for future art of Egypt

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