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Collins, Paul

Assyrian palace sculptures / Paul Collins, with photographs by Lisa Baylis and Sandra Marshall. - 1st University of Texas Press ed. - 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 27 cm.

Originally published : London : British Museum, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

Art of Ashurnasirpal II --Art of Tglath-Pileser III --Art of Sargon II --Art of Sennacherib --Art of Ashurbanipal --Further reading --Index.

Commissioned by powerful kings between the ninth and seventh centuries BC, these carved images are witnesses to their achier achievement. The book presents a photographic tour of some of these sculptures from ancient Iraq. An introductory chapter sets the sculptures in their cultural and art-historical context, and surveys the artistic traditions in which they are rooted. An exploration of the changing styles of carving through time then leads the reader from early symbolic scenes of royal achievements to the final flourishing of Assyrian sculpture, in which the raw emotion and energy of animalgs and humans is captured with vitality.--Publisher.

ISBN: 9780292721692 0292721692

LCCN: 2009921641

Subjects--Corporate Names:
British Museum--Catalogs.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian--Catalogs.
Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian--England--London--Catalogs.
Palaces--Assyria.

LC Class. No.: Art/NB80 / .C57 2009