ARTH 1100 Chapter 3: ARTH 1100 CHAPTER TWO AND THREE.docx
1 Feb 2014
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3500 560 bce: sumerian art (located within iraq, writing invented, first construction of oldest temples on ziggurats, examples, white temple and ziggurat, temple plateforms, ramps building up to the temple. Narration: lowest bands=agriculture + animal husbandry, central band=men carrying baskets, top band=symbolism of marriage between the priest king and the goddess, statuettes of two worshippers iraq, big eyes=wakefulness; tiny hands b. 4: akkadian art, first mesopotamian rulers to call themselves kings, earliest preserved hollow cast bronze statuary (collection of statues, examples, naram sin stele. Iran: conquest of lullbi; leading arm up the mountain, horn helmet=divinity; first king to appear as a god, neo sumerian and babylonian, largest ziggurat in ur, hammurabi, babylon"s greatest king, sets up a stele recording his laws, examples, ziggurat of ur. Iraq: largest architectural monument, built in terms of the collapse of the akkadian empire, religious temple, power symbol, another time period: third dynasty of ur, gudea of lagash.
