The art and architecture of the ancient Orient
By: Henri Frankfort
Edition: 4th rev. impression.
Series: The Pelican history of art; Pelican history of art
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Eng
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780140560077
Subjects: Beeldende kunsten; Art; Architecture; Moyen-Orient; Antiquites
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One. Mesopotamia. 1. The emergence of Sumerian art : the protoliterate period (circa 3500-3000 B.C.); title: Architecture; title: Applied sculpture and relief; title: Sculpture in the round; title: Commemorative relief; title: Cylinder seals; title: 2. The early dynastic period (circa 3000-2340 B.C.); title: Architecture; title: Sculpture in the round; title: Engraving and relief; title: Glyptic art; title: 3. The Akkadian period (2340-2180 B.C.); title: The neo-Sumerian period (2125-2025 B.C.) and the period of Isin, Larsa, and Babylon (2025-1594 B.C.); title: Lagash; title: The Third Dynasty of Ur; title: The Isin-Larsa Period; title: Hammurabi of Babylon; title: 5. The art of the Kassite Dynasty (circa 1600-1100 B.C.); title: 6. The beginnings of Assyrian art (circa 1350-1000 B.C.); title: 7. The late Assyrian Period (circa 1000-612 B.C.); title: Architecture; title: Sculpture in the round; title: Relief and painting; title: Applied arts; title: 8. The Neo-Babylonian period (circa 612-539 B.C.); title: Part Two. The peripheral regions. 9. Asia Minor and the Hittites; title: Anatolia up to the middle of the second millennium B.C.; title: The Hittite Empire (circa 1400-1200 B.C.); title: Architecture; title: Sculpture; title: 10. The Levant in the second millennium B.C.; title: Egyptian predominance (2000-1800 B.C.) and Babylonian penetration (1800-1700 B.C.); title: The Mitannian Era (circa 1450-1360 B.C.); title: The Hittite and Ramessid Era (1360-1150 B.C.); title: 11. Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria : North Syrian art (850-650 B.C.); title: Architecture; title: Sculpture; title: Phoenician and Syrian art; title: Ivories; title: Metal-work; title: 12. The art of Ancient Persia; title: The Luristan bronzes; title: Achaemenian art; title: Architecture; title: Sculpture.