TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collins,Paul
AU  - Baylis,Lisa
AU  - Marshall,Sandra
ED  - British Museum Publications Ltd.
TI  - Assyrian palace sculptures
SN  - 9780292721692
AV  - Art/NB80 .C57 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Austin, London
PB  - University of Texas Press, Published in co-operation with British Museum Press
KW  - British Museum
KW  - Catalogs
KW  - Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - Palaces
KW  - Assyria
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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