Brill, 2005. — 148 p. — (Cuneiform Monographs 28). This study brings together the archaeological record and the pictorial documentation of ornamental wall painting produced in Assyria, from the thirteenth to the seventh centuries B.C. Nimrud, Khorsabad, Til Barsip, and Tell Sheikh Hamad, are among the ancient sites where impressive wall paintings were discovered; unfortunately...
Walter de Gruyter, 2011. — 223 p. — (Topoi: Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 2 ). The ceremonial centers of the Syro-Hittite city-states (1200-700 BC) were lavishly decorated with large-scale, open-air figurative reliefs - an original and greatly influential artistic tradition. But why exactly did the production of such an array of monumental images ever start? This volume...
Scarabaeus, 1923. — 118 S. Farbige Keramik aus Assur und ihre Vorstufen in altassyrischen Wandmalerein nach Aquarellen von mitgliedern der Assur - Expedition und nach photographischen Aufnahmen von Originalen im Auftage der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft.
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 350 p. Discussions of apocalyptic thought and its sources in the ancient Near East, particularly Mesopotamia, have a long scholarly history, with a renewed interest and focus in the recent decades. Outside Assyriological scholarship as well, studies of the apocalyptic give significant credit to the ancient Near East, especially Babylonia and...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989. — 97 p.
The subject of Persian drawings has received little attention from scholars, certainly far less than the paintings for which some of them served as studies. Yet drawings, even sketches and studies, let alone finished works destined to grace imperial or princely albums, merit our enthusiastic inspection.
The Metropolitan Museum...
Einaudi, 2017. — 380 p. L'arte mesopotamica si colloca tra le prime e più affascinanti tappe dell'evoluzione artistica e architettonica, nonché a fondamento di molte tradizioni posteriori. Questo libro è una nuova e autorevole indagine degli sviluppi epocali nell'arte e architettura dell'antica Mesopotamia dall'8000 a.e.v. fino all'arrivo dell'Islam nel 636 e.v. Zainab Bahrani...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. — 256 p. Mesopotamia, the world's earliest literate culture, developed a rich philosophical conception of representation in which the world was saturated with signs. Instead of imitating the natural world, representation - both in writing and in visual images - was thought to participate in the world and to have an effect upon it in natural,...
British Museum, 1957. — 230 p. The ‘Nimrud Ivories’ have been known as a name of a collection for a great many years. It was long supposed by the majority of archaeologists that this title described a small but all-important group of fragments found by Layard in 1848 at Nimrud, the ancient Assyrian capital Kalhu, Biblical Calah. These ivories were suspected by some to be...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 272 p. This richly illustrated book explores the art of ancient Iran and Central Asia between the 5th and 2nd millenniums BC, a time that proved to be one of the region’s most prolific periods. Over this period, the first cities arise, strengthen their power and multiply, and undergo continuous innovation. To serve this new world, items are...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010. — 137 p. — ISBN: 978-1-58839-358-6. Many features of civilization originated in the lands we call the ancient Near East, a vast and varied area from Turkey to the Indus Valley of present-day Pakistan and from the Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula. This essential guide for K–12 educators introduces the variety and diversity of art...
Philipp von Zabern, 2000. — 232 p. Grabdenkmäler tragen bildhaft Sorge um Verbleib und Gedenken der Verstorbenen. Sie stehen an der Schwelle von einer realen zur imaginären Welt, vom Diesseits zum Jenseits, und bieten damit die weithin genutzte Möglichkeit zur Sichtbarmachung eines sakralen Grenzbereiches. Die vorliegende Untersuchung widmet sich dem Studium einer Gruppe von...
The University of Chicago Press, 1924. — 140 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 1). Buried in the heart of the Syrian Desert, the city of Dura had been forgotten for fifteen centuries. In this lost city on the outer fringes of the Roman Empire in Asia were thus preserved the only surviving oriental forerunners of Byzantine painting, out of which arose the pre-Renaissance...
De Gruyter, 2016. — 812 p. This volume assembles more than 30 articles focusing on the visual, material, and environmental arts of the Ancient Near East. Specific case studies range temporally from the fourth millennium up to the Hellenistic period and geographically from Iran to the eastern Mediterranean. Contributions apply innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to...
Rodez: Musée Fenaille, 2004. — 61 p. — ISBN: 2-9507907-5-5. Avec la collection de statues-menhirs, le musee Fenaille possede un ensemble exceptionnel de sculptures prehistoriques. Datees de la fin du Neolithique (vers 3300 - 2200 avant notre ere), elles sont aussi les premieres representations humaines a grande echelle erigees en Europe. A selection of 70 terracottas figurines...
Brill, 2007. — 541 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 26).
Through her published works and in the classroom, Irene J. Winter has served as a mentor for the latest generation of scholars of Mesopotamian visual culture. The various contributions to this volume in her honor represent a cross section of the state of scholarship today. Topics by the twenty authors...
University Press of New England, 2016. — 112 p. One of the best-known images of the ancient Near East is an intriguing nineteenth-century color lithograph reconstructing the throne room of an Assyrian palace. Executed shortly after the archaeological rediscovery of Assyria, a land theretofore known only from the Bible, it was published by the most famous among early excavators...
University Press of New England, 2016. — 88 p. One of the best-known images of the ancient Near East is an intriguing nineteenth-century color lithograph reconstructing the throne room of an Assyrian palace. Executed shortly after the archaeological rediscovery of Assyria, a land theretofore known only from the Bible, it was published by the most famous among early excavators...
British Museum Press, 2008. — 150 p. Between the ninth and seventh centuries BC, the small kingdom of Assyria in northern Iraq expanded to dominate the region from Egypt to Iran. The power of the Assyrian kings was reflected in a series of magnificent palaces in which the walls of principal rooms and courtyards were lined with huge panels of alabaster carved with images of the...
University of California Press, 1995. — 252 p. Based on the unrivaled collections of the British Museum, this extensively illustrated book is a superb introduction to the art of the ancient Near East from the eighth millennium B.C. to Alexander the Great. Often described as the cradle of civilization, the ancient Near East was the birthplace of writing, monumental sculpture,...
Guide to the collections. — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1966. — 41 pp. Any survey of the human past in the ancient Near East is bounded by certain severe limitations. First of all, the length of time—over 8,000 years from the beginning of the first villages until the Arab conquest—staggers comprehension. During this period of time, furthermore, a flood of different racial...
Abbeville Press, 2007. — 263 p. The history of the area now known as Iran, but often still referred to as Persia, spans millennia, boasting a rich and complex artistic and cultural legacy. Populated since prehistoric times, thus making it one of the most dynamic areas of Islamic civilization, this region was home to the world’s first powerful empire (lead by Cyrus the Great...
British Museum Press, 1995. — 226 p. A catalogue of some of the finest Assyrian artefacts in the British Museum, presenting a picture of one of the greatest civilizations of antiquity. The catalogue describes the excavation in the mid-19th century of over 250 items.
NY: The Metropolitan museum of art, 1940. — 32 p. This picture book was composed in 1940 to display choice pieces from the Museum's Near East jewelry collection. Along with its array of photographs, the assembling curators have provided an introductory essay on the history and cultures that surround each of these carefully crafted ornaments, as well as the techniques used to...
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2020. — 663 p. — (Achaemenid history 16). This volume in honour of Margaret Cool Root gathers seventeen contributions on Achaemenid Persian art, ranging from the European re-discovery of Persepolis, via Achaemenid glyphic art, evidence of polychrome sculpture, and Achaemenid impact in the satrapies, to possible reflections of...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 286 p. This book examines the sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period (2900–2350 BC) of Sumer, a region corresponding to present-day southern Iraq. Featured almost exclusively in temple complexes, some 550 Early Dynastic stone statues of human figures carved in an abstract style have survived. Chronicling the intellectual history...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 286 p. This book examines the sculptures created during the Early Dynastic period (2900–2350 BC) of Sumer, a region corresponding to present-day southern Iraq. Featured almost exclusively in temple complexes, some 550 Early Dynastic stone statues of human figures carved in an abstract style have survived. Chronicling the intellectual history...
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. — 554 S. — (Iranica 27). — ISBN 978-3-447-11089-1. Einer in der Forschung weit verbreiteten Meinung zufolge existierte im Alten Iran keine zoroastrische Kunst. In Sprache der Bilder nun untersucht Shervin Farridnejad Darstellungen altiranischer anthropomorpher Gottheiten und deren Erscheinung im zoroastrischen Pantheon mit der methodischen...
The University of Chicago Press, 1939. — 222 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 44). More works of Early Dynastic sculpture have come to light in the excavations of the Oriental Institute’s Iraq Expedition, under Henri Frankfort, than the sum total of all those found at other sites or preserved in various museums. In addition, the circumstances of their discovery have made...
Penguin Books, 1996. — 456 p. Traces the development of Mesopotamian art from Sumerian times to the late Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods. This text also covers the art and architecture of Asia Minor and the Hittites, of the Levant in the second millennium BC, of the Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria, and of Ancient Persia.
Archaeopress, 2020. — 130 p. Proceedings of a Workshop at the 11th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Munich) in April 2018 Glazed bricks applied as a new form of colourful and glossy architectural decor first started to appear in the early Iron Age on monumental buildings of the Ancient Near East. It surely impressed the spectators then as it...
Expressão e Cultura, 1979. — 179 p. — (O Mundo da Arte). Este livro trata do desenvolvimento histórico e social de algumas das prandes civilizações e das formas de sua expressão artística. Na região hoje conhecida como o Antigo Oriente Médio nasceriam as primeiras expressões político-religiosas e artísticas do homem numa cultura amadurecida. Esta região estende-se do Egito e da...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. — 970 p. Provides a broad view of the history and current state of scholarship on the art of the ancient Near East. This book covers the aesthetic traditions of Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia, and the Levant, from Neolithic times to the end of the Achaemenid Persian Empire around 330 BCE. It describes and examines the field from a variety of critical...
Les Editions G. van Oest, 1928. — 118 p. The present volume illustrates a selection of the more interesting examples of Babylonian and Assyrian Sculpture in the British Museum. The Assyrian relief-sculptures are the finest early examples of the artistic spirit of Asia, while their forerunners the Sumerian statues and smaller carved objects from Babylonia are the most ancient.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983. — 93 p. — ISBN: 0-87099-324-0. Proceedings of a symposium held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 23 February 1981. Foreword (Vaughn E. Crawford). Charles K. Wilkinson (Prudence O. Harper). A Selected Bibliography of Works by Charles K. Wilkinson. The Program of the Throneroom of Assurnasirpal II (Irene J. Winter). Magic and...
University of Chicago Press, 1963. — 282 p. — ISBN: 0-226-32397-8 Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which were current among the ancient peoples of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley. With the same careful scholarship shown in his previous volume, The Babylonian Genesis,...
British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2004. — 186 p. Nimrud is an exceptionally generous site, and has richly rewarded those that work there. It was first famous for the Assyrian bas reliefs found by the 19th century archaeologist, Austen Henry Layard, but is also famous for the thousands of ivories found during the 19th and 20th centuries. The ivories were mostly imported...
British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2009. — 446 p. — ( Ivories from Nimrud (1949-1963) 6). The great, ninth century palace which Ashurnasirpal II (883-859) built at his new capital of Kalhu/Nimrud has been excavated over 150 years by various expeditions. Each has been rewarded with remarkable antiquities, including the finest ivories found in the ancient Near East, many of...
British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2013. — 211 p. — ( Ivories from Nimrud (1949-1963) 7.1). The attached PDF contains the text of volume I: Chapters 1-6 and the Appendices. About Ivories from Nimrud VII - The Lost Art of the Phoenicians Fifty years have passed since the British School of Archaeology in Iraq raised the last ivory from the soil of Fort Shalmaneser. Literally...
British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1986. — 286 p. — ( Ivories from Nimrud (1949-1963) 4.1). Between the years 1949 and 1963, in the course ofthirteen campaigns, excavations conducted at Nimrud by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq yielded many thousands of ivories-mostly in a fragmentary condition. The task of sorting, cleaning, strengthening, repairing, classifying,...
British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1986. — 420 p. — ( Ivories from Nimrud (1949-1963) 4.2). Between the years 1949 and 1963, in the course ofthirteen campaigns, excavations conducted at Nimrud by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq yielded many thousands of ivories-mostly in a fragmentary condition. The task of sorting, cleaning, strengthening, repairing, classifying,...
Helikon Kiadó, 1988. — 159 o. — (A múlt születése). A múlt születése sorozat legújabb kötete a mintegy négyezer éves iráni kultúra történetének azzal az ezeréves időszakával foglalkozik, amely Nagy Sándor haláltól az iszlám hódítás koráig telt el. Ez a korszak, amelyet a Szeleukidák, párthusok és szászánidák uralma fémjelez, valóban a perzsa újjászületés kora. Ekkor valósul meg...
British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1992. — 262 p. — ( Ivories from Nimrud (1949-1963) 5). Between the years 1949 and 1963, in the course ofthirteen campaigns, excavations conducted at Nimrud by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq yielded many thousands of ivories-mostly in a fragmentary condition. The task of sorting, cleaning, strengthening, repairing, classifying,...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007. — 258 p. — ISBN: 978-58839-251-2 Throughout their long history, the ancient Egyptians crafted luminous statues of bronze, copper, silver, and gold for use in interactions with their gods—from ritual dramas enacted in the inner sanctuaries of temples to festival processions and celebrations attended by the multitudes. This volume,...
London: A. & C. Black, 1920. — 112 p.
If this work is to be kept within its limitations, it is naturally impossible to give a complete survey of all the varieties of the various styles. To get this knowledge it will be necessary to consult the works of reference, of which lists are given in each section. On the other hand, the special aspect of the work is more fully treated...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006. — 265 p.
The city of Raqqa, situated on the Euphrates River in present-day Syria, had its first Islamic flowering in the late eighteenth century, when it was the residence of the legendary Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid. It experienced a resurgence during the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, but was destroyed in 1265. Little is...
Prepared by Belma Kulaçoğlu; photographs by Behiç Günel, Hüseyin Şen; translated by Jean Oztürk. — Ankara: Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi (Museum of Anatolian Civilizations), 1992. — 216 p. — ISBN: 975-17-1127-4. Since 1921, when the Turkish National Assembly was formed, the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations has accumulated over the years the magnificient collection of...
Frederick A. Praeger, 1965. — 312 p. The Near East, cradle of civilization, gave birth to arts of monumental sculpture and painting in a time long before the beginnings of written history. By the time Athens was bursting into flower as a center of Western culture, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and their neighbors could look back on nearly twenty-five centuries of continuous artistic...
British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1970. — 116 p. — ( Ivories from Nimrud (1949-1963) 2). Between the years 1949 and 1963, in the course ofthirteen campaigns, excavations conducted at Nimrud by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq yielded many thousands of ivories-mostly in a fragmentary condition. The task of sorting, cleaning, strengthening, repairing, classifying,...
British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1974. — 236 p. — ( Ivories from Nimrud (1949-1963) 3). Between the years 1949 and 1963, in the course ofthirteen campaigns, excavations conducted at Nimrud by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq yielded many thousands of ivories-mostly in a fragmentary condition. The task of sorting, cleaning, strengthening, repairing, classifying,...
Electa/Gallimard, 1995. — 195 p. In un'aspra regione della Siria interna, in un sito chiamato Tell Mardikh, nel 1964 iniziavano gli scavi intrapresi dalla missione archeologica dell'Università di Roma, guidata da Paolo Matthiae. Ben presto si poté identificare la leggendaria città di Ebla. Si susseguirono da allora nuove e sensazionali scoperte: mura, palazzi, templi, necropoli...
Einaudi, 2020. — 341 p. Il saggio ripercorre la storia del ritratto, prevalentemente regale, nelle maggiori civiltà figurative dell’Oriente antico, con privilegiata attenzione all’Egitto e alla Mesopotamia, dagli anni attorno al 3000 a.C. fino alle conquiste di Alessandro Magno. L’autore di Ebla presenta un'interpretazione completamente nuova della più remota origine del...
Laterza, 1996. — 431 p. Uno dei più autorevoli archeologi orientali contemporanei ricostruisce criticamente lo sviluppo dell'arte assira attraverso la documentazione figurativa di quegli eccezionali capolavori che sono i rilievi dei palazzi reali. Fatti eseguire dai maggiori sovrani dell'impero assiro tra il IX e il VII secolo a.C. nei grandi palazzi di Nimrud, Khorsabad e...
Phaidon, 1969. — 374 p. The culture of Ancient Mesopotamia, which began in the third millennium b.c. under the Sumerians and Akkadians and culminated in the second and first millennia B.C. under the Babylonians and Assyrians, was produced by a succession of races of the most varied origin and language. Yet it displays an integrated spiritual organism, of which the overriding...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 324 p. In this volume, Alexander Nagel investigates the use of polychromy in the art and architecture of ancient Iran. Focusing on Persepolis, he explores the topic within the context of the modern historiography of Achaemenid art and the scientific investigation of a range of works and monuments in Iran and in museums around the world....
British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1967. — 105 p. — ( Ivories from Nimrud (1949-1963) 1.2). As the advance companion to a detailed Commentary, which I am currently preparing, the present Catalogue is concerned exclusively with the description and illustration of those equestrian bridle-harness ornaments which the British School of Archaeology in Iraq discovered at Nimrud...
R.Habelt, 1971. — 642 S. — (Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 8). Die folgenden Untersuchungen befassen sich mit der späthethitischen Kunst. Die zeitliche Abgrenzung des Begriffes „Späthethitisch“ bereitet wenig Schwierigkeiten. Er geht – soweit ich sehe – auf L . Woolley zurück, der mit „Late Hittite“ (im Gegensatz zu Old Hittite, Middle Hittite) die Periode der...
Historia Viva, 1999. — 161 p. — (Historia del Arte 3. Historia 16). De todos es sabido que Mesopotamia (entre ríos, según la terminología griega), situada entre los bíblicos Eufrates y Tigris, fue junto con Egipto uno de los focos de civilización más significativos de la Antigüedad. Gracias a los viajeros occidentales y exploradores que recorrieron durante siglos su dura...
Paris: Hachette, 1890. — 928 p., 12 l. of plates (2 folded, 1 double) : ill., plans. Contenant 537 gravures dessinées d'après les originaux ou d'après les documents les plus authentiques.
Paris: Hachette, 1890. — 928 p., 12 l. of plates (2 folded, 1 double) : ill., plans. Contenant 537 gravures dessinées d'après les originaux ou d'après les documents les plus authentiques.
Paris: Hachette, 1890. — 928 p., 12 l. of plates (2 folded, 1 double) : ill., plans. Contenant 537 gravures dessinées d'après les originaux ou d'après les documents les plus authentiques.
Paris: Hachette, 1890. — 928 p., 12 l. of plates (2 folded, 1 double) : ill., plans. Contenant 537 gravures dessinées d'après les originaux ou d'après les documents les plus authentiques.
Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1993. — 252 p. This heavily illustrated catalogue is devoted to the Getty Museum"s collection of silver and gold from the Hellenized East—one of the largest yet assembled. Among the objects included are rhyta, bowls, cups, jewelry, and decorative gold and silver ornaments for horse bridles and clothing. In an extensive introduction, the author...
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. — 80 p. — ISBN: 978-0300193008. Stamp and cylinder seals are a crucial source for the art, history, and religion of the ancient Near East. The rulers, gods, demons, and monsters that move in stately and seemingly dumb procession around the seals give us important insights into the real and magical worlds of the ancients. Cylinder and...
Metropolitan Museum, 1984. — 102 pages.
Bronze Age art research based on the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.
Исследования искусства бронзового века по материалам коллекции музея Метрополитен.
The ancient cultures of the Near East have become known to us slowly. Before the cuneiform inscriptions were deciphered in the middle of the last century, we depended on the...
Holle, 1980. — 299 S. — (Kunst der Welt). Die iranische Kunst hat wenige bedeutende Einzelwerke geschaffen, doch viele 'Gruppen ihrer Erzeugnisse haben künstlerischen Reiz. Im besonderen sind es Tiere, deren organische Gestalten die iranische Kunst in wesensnahe, aber formgebundene Bilder verwandelt. Der Betrachter erfreut sich zugleich an der reinen Form und an ihrer Belebung....
University of California Press, 1967. — 556 p. — (California studies in the history of art 6). An important in depth reference on history, religion and arts, from apparel to architecture, with a strong emphasis on seals and coins. Several long chapters on coins, including 16 large, sharp coin plates.
Aix Marseille Université, 2018. — 358 p. The study of women representations on works of art from Sasanid Iran (224-651 CE) has not only meant a tremendous challenge subject but also a source of pleasure and curiosity. During the four Sassanid centuries, the female representations on silver vessels have increased especially at the end of this period. The relevant iconography on...
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2021. — 568 p. This volume assembles leading Near Eastern art historians, archaeologists, and philologists to examine and apply critical contemporary approaches to the arts and artifacts of the ancient Near East. The contributions in the volume, which include a comprehensive first chapter by the editor and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 511 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 53).
Presenting a large body of evidence for the first time, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of Nubian architecture, sculpture, and minor arts in the period between 300 BC-AD 250. It focuses primarily on the Nubian response to the traditional pharaonic, Hellenistic/Roman,...
Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1939. — 154 p. — (Analecta orientalia 18). This study of the fauna of ancient Mesopotamia as represented in art was undertaken at the suggestion of the reverend Professor Dr. Alfred Pohl, S. J., Editor of the Analecta Orientaliabecause he thought that a collection of the material might be of use as a handy work of reference to scholars who wished to...
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 1966. — 248 p. — (PIHANS 20). The Western world owes its knowledge of Urartian art mostly to scholars like Lehmann-Haupt, Herzfeld, and Barnett. Certain remarks of theirs, and some recent articles by Miss Maxwell-Hyslop, Miss Kantor, and others, have led to a belief that Urartian art was a complex of various heterogeneous elements....
Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1910. — 460 p. — (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication 100). For twenty years I have given a good part of the minutes or hours that could be spared from very engrossing daily office-work to the study of Oriental seal cylinders. I first hoped to be able to master the cuneiform texts, and had begun the study as far back as I862; but...
Leiden-Boston: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2010. — (Culture and history of the ancient Near East, v. 34)
Anyone who has already done the task of gathering together previously published essays aimed at heterogeneous audiences and intended for different purposes into single volumes will know, and those who may do it in future are likely to discover, that the reading through of one’s...
Leiden-Boston: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2010. — (Culture and history of the ancient Near East, v. 34) The studies included in the present volume of collected essays range from specifi c monuments of the third millennium b.c.e. to issues of interpretation, understanding and ethics relevant to the third millennium c.e. The initial preposition of the subtitle has been carefully...
Thames & Hudson, 2017. — 359 p. A new and authoritative survey of the momentous and influential developments in the art and architecture of ancient Mesopotamia from 8000 BCE to the arrival of Islam in 636 CE. In this fascinating and compelling book, Zainab Bahrani introduces readers to the spectacular images and monuments of this region of the Near East, covering modern Iraq,...
Routledge, 2020. — 540 p. The Art of Elam CA. 4200–525 BC offers a view of, and a critical reflection on, the art history of one of the world’s first and least-known civilizations, illuminating a significant chapter of our human past. Not unlike a gallery of historical paintings, this comprehensive treatment of the rich heritage of ancient Iran showcases a visual trail of the...
Routledge, 2020. — 540 p. The Art of Elam CA. 4200–525 BC offers a view of, and a critical reflection on, the art history of one of the world’s first and least-known civilizations, illuminating a significant chapter of our human past. Not unlike a gallery of historical paintings, this comprehensive treatment of the rich heritage of ancient Iran showcases a visual trail of the...
Routledge, 2020. — 540 p. The Art of Elam CA. 4200–525 BC offers a view of, and a critical reflection on, the art history of one of the world’s first and least-known civilizations, illuminating a significant chapter of our human past. Not unlike a gallery of historical paintings, this comprehensive treatment of the rich heritage of ancient Iran showcases a visual trail of the...
Routledge, 2020. — 540 p. The Art of Elam CA. 4200–525 BC offers a view of, and a critical reflection on, the art history of one of the world’s first and least-known civilizations, illuminating a significant chapter of our human past. Not unlike a gallery of historical paintings, this comprehensive treatment of the rich heritage of ancient Iran showcases a visual trail of the...
М.: Искусство, 1976. — 375 с.
Книга посвящена древнему искусству Ближнего Востока, Ирана и Египта. Процессы становления искусства и его стилистическая эволюция рассматриваются авторами в связи с общей историей человечества. Прослеживаются взаимные связи между странами, "традиционными" для данного раздела истории мирового искусства (Шумер, Аккад, Вавилон, Ассирия, Персия,...
М.: Искусство, 1976. — 366 с.
Книга посвящена древнему искусству Ближнего Востока, Ирана и Египта. Процессы становления искусства и его стилистическая эволюция рассматриваются авторами в связи с общей историей человечества. Прослеживаются взаимные связи между странами, "традиционными" для данного раздела истории мирового искусства (Шумер, Аккад, Вавилон, Ассирия, Персия,...
Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука», 1979. – 219 с. Книга посвящена истории культуры древнейших государств Двуречья — Шумера и Аккада. Автор рассматривает в своем исследовании изобразительное искусство и литературу через объясняющие их образы Гильгамеша и Энкиду — древних эпических героев Двуречья.
Монография — М.: Наука, 1979. — 219 с.: ил. — (Культура народов Востока). Книга посвящена истории культуры древнейших государств Двуречья — Шумера и Аккада. Автор рассматривает в своем исследовании изобразительное искусство (глиптику) и литературу через объединяющие их образы Гильгамеша и Энкиду — древних эпических героев Двуречья. От автора. Наука о глиптике Шумера и Аккада....
Монография — М.: Наука, 1979. — 219 с.: ил. — (Культура народов Востока). Книга посвящена истории культуры древнейших государств Двуречья — Шумера и Аккада. Автор рассматривает в своем исследовании изобразительное искусство (глиптику) и литературу через объединяющие их образы Гильгамеша и Энкиду — древних эпических героев Двуречья.
М.: Водолей Publishers, 2007. — 464 с. В своей новой книге доктор исторических наук, лауреат Государственной премии, ведущий научный сотрудник Отдела Востока Государственного Эрмитажа В. К. Афанасьева на материалах изобразительности и литературы Древнего Двуречья стремится проследить пути человеческой мысли в области расширения границ восприятия. Отталкиваясь от загадочного...
М., Издательство ГМИИ им. А.С. Пушкина, 1946, 96 с.
Настоящий очерк ставит своей задачей показать искусство Месопотамии с конца 5-го тысячелетия до н. э. и вплоть до VII в. до н. э.
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История открытий
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Шумер
Аккад
Шумер
Мари
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Ленинград: Государственный Эрмитаж, 1941. — 144 с.; ил. — (История искусства Древнего Востока. Том I. Древний Египет. Выпуск II). Введение. Искусство XXI века до х. з. Придворная скульптура XX века до х. э. Местные школы XX века. Скульптура. Местные школы XX века. Рельеф и стенная роспись. Скульптура XIX века до х. з. Архитектура XX-XIX веков до х. з. Перечень таблиц. Перечень...
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Матье М.Э., Афанасьева В.К., Дьяконов И.М., Луконин В.Г. М.: Искусство, 1968. — 456 с. Этот выпуск издания "Мирового искусства" посвящён истории искусства Древнего Востока. Он охватывает огромный этап художественной культуры от времени формирования классового общества на рубеже 4-3 тысячелетий до н. э. до греко-македонского завоевания (4 в. до н. э.). Широко показаны памятники...
М.: Искусство, 1968. — 456 с. Этот выпуск издания "Мирового искусства" посвящён истории искусства Древнего Востока. Он охватывает огромный этап художественной культуры от времени формирования классового общества на рубеже 4-3 тысячелетий до н. э. до греко-македонского завоевания (4 в. до н. э.). Широко показаны памятники искусства Древнего Египта, государств Двуречья - Шумера,...
Научное издание. — СПб.: Нестор-История, 2004. — 164 с., илл. — (Труды ИИМК РАН. Т. XIV). — ISBN: 5-98187-030-3. Монография обобщающего характера посвящена итогам изучения влияния Индии на художественную культуру доарабской Средней Азии с первых веков до н. э. по VIII н. э. на основе новых археологических открытий. Обзорный очерк знакомит с архитектурными сооружениями на...
СПб.: СПбКО, 2010. — 148 с. — ISBN: 978-5-903983-27-8 Методическое пособие по курсу «Искусство Древнего Востока» предназначено для студентов и представляет собой план-конспект по изучаемым темам, дополненный кратким списком литературы, фотографиями с комментариями и контрольными вопросами. В пособие включены списки вопросов к экзаменам, примерные темы рефератов, курсовых и...
СПб.: СПбКО, 2010. — 149 с. Методическое пособие по курсу «Искусство Древнего Востока» предназначено для студентов и представляет собой план-конспект по изучаемым темам, дополненный кратким списком литературы, фотографиями с комментариями и контрольными вопросами. В пособие включены списки вопросов к экзаменам, примерные темы рефератов, курсовых и дипломных работ. Также имеется...
М.: АН СССР, 1959. — 246 с.
Новые памятники искусства древнего Пянджикента. Опыт иконографического истолкования. Живопись. Памятники монументальной глиняной скульптуры. Памятники деревянной скульптуры. Архитектурный орнамент. Живописный орнамент. Резное дерево. Исследование, опыт реконструкции и консервация. Камеральная обработка росписей. Исследования ранее открытых росписей....
М.: Искусство, 1985. - 296 с. В книге предпринимается попытка дать эстетическое осмысление важнейших проблем древнеегипетского искусства и реконструировать основные нормы эстетического восприятия искусства его создателями и современниками. Раскрытие эстетической сущности и специфики художественного образа в древнеегипетском искусстве базируется на анализе текстов, памятников...
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Редакторы Е.Гриль, Р. Онуфриева. — Ленинград: Аврора, 1971. — 104 с. В книге изложена история древнего города Пальмира, находящегося в Сирии. Описано архитектурное наследие и культура. В конце книги есть альбом чёрно-белых иллюстраций.
М.: Изд-во АН СССР, 1954. — 252 с. "Пянджикент, районный центр Ленинабадской области Таджикской ССР, расположенный на левом берегу Зеравшана, у самого входа в горные долины Северного Таджикистана, за последние годы привлекает большое внимание советских археологов, работающих над историей культуры таджикского народа. Хотя Пянджикент нередко упоминается в согдийских документах с...
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