Their art consisted of statues and painting in comic strip style narratives. Human eyes are always made extremely large and, in paintings, are always seen from the front. Human figures are stylised but animals are more natural. Pictures of struggles between animals and monsters represent the struggle between the natural and the supernatural. Akkadian art derives from Summerian.
Human figures are more natural.
Babylonian art was usually part of architecture, for example, guardian beasts at the entrance to buildings. The Assyrians mainly produced relief sculptures of narrative scenes. All rights reserved. As much of this site deals with historical subjects, specific items of information are necessarily derived from many other sources. However, the combination, layout and presentation of the information is original and copyright, and may not be copied or reproduced in any form or medium without the express permission of the author.