ART HIS 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Siemens Greek Bribery Scandal, Eannatum, Ashurbanipal
28 Oct 2016
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Assurbanipal and his queen feasting, palace of ashurbanipal, nineveh, iraq 650. A relaxed scene of the king and his wife feasting in a beautiful. There is a severed head hanging from a nearby tree just in view. The assyrians found blood and gore a normal part of life. Assyrians themes: representing real life (war and blood) and were famed for brutality of conquests. The rise of the achaemenid persians 500-300 bce. Founded by cyrus the great: he himself conquered the meads. Under his successors, the persian empire acquired mesopotamia, egypt, asia minor (turkey), indus valley: persian empire was massive. They followed zorro asters religious teachings: dates far back and precedes islam, nature-oriented, lived in late 7th century bc, there were two central forces in the world (light and dark) Religious rituals were practiced outdoors so had no need for temples (worshipped outside) Southern fa ade, palace of darius and xerxes at persepolis, iran, 518-460 bce.
