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Mesopotamian Art Description
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1-7c-picture-Assurbanipal Hunting – Relief Carving
Assurbanipal, also spelled Ashurbanipal, was the king
of Assyria from 668-627 BC. In the Bible he is called
Asnappar. (Ezra 4:10) This is a stone relief carving. The
term relief in Latin means to raise. Relief carvings
decorated royal monuments and honored the king's
hunting and war making achievements.
1-7d-picture- Assurbanipal as High Priest – Relief Sculpture
During his reign he collected cuneiform texts from all over
Mesopotamia, and especially Babylonia, for his royal
palace of Nineveh. This collection, known as the Library of
Assurbanipal, is now housed at the British Museum. He was
proud of his scribal education. He said, “I Assurbanipal within
[the palace], took care of the wisdom of Nebo, the whole of
the inscribed tablets, of all the clay tablets, the whole of their
mysteries and difficulties, I solved.”. He was one of the few
kings who could read the cuneiform script in Akkadian and
Sumerian, and claimed that he even read texts from before the great flood.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurbanipal)
1-7e-picture- Stele of Vultures
A stele is a tall stone pillar with carvings to commemorate
important events. The Stele of Vultures is a limestone monument
showing various battles and religious scenes of Mesopotamia
during 2600-2350 BC. It is broken into seven pieces now and is
named after the vultures in one of the scenes.
(Fragment of the Stele
Museum.)
of the Vultures, Early Dynastic III period, 2600–2350 BC, Louvre
Mesopotamia gave us the first forms of written writing known to man called
Cuneiform. Using sharpened sticks, the marks were pressed into soft clay tablets.
1-7f-picture- Cylinder Seal and Impression Cylinder Seal, (3000
BC), limestone, Louvre Museum in the Department of Oriental
Antiquities. The Sumerians produced many small, finely carved
cylindrical seals made of marble, alabaster, carnelian, lapis
lazuli, and stone.
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1-7g-picture- War Panel – Standard of Ur
Mesopotamian War panel from 2600 BC. This is a box
decorated with pictures in lapis lazuli (type of blue
stone), shell, and red sandstone with inlay work.
1-7h-statues -Sumerian Statues
Sumerian Statues, (2700 BCE) Abu Temple in Tell Asmar,
Mesopotamia, stone. Sculpture was a large part of art
during this time. The artists used different types of metal
and clay to make the sculptures. Faces have very large
eyes and simple cylinder and cone shaped bodies.
1-7i-statues- Winged Assyrian Bull
Mesopotamia, Khorsabad, palace of Sargon II of Assyria,
Neo-Assyrian period, reign of Sargon II (721-705 BCE),
Winged Assyrian Bull, height 4.40 m, Louvre Museum. This
large statue is called a lamassu, meaning "protective
spirit" in Akkadian. A pair of lamassu was usually placed at
the doorways of Assyrian palaces to protect against evil
spirits.
1-7j-picture- Bull Relief Sculpture
A Babylonian relief sculpture of a bull made of brightly
glazed tiles on the restored Ishtar Gate. The original
sculpture dates from around 575 BC and stood on the
gate of the Temple of Bel, the biblical Tower of Babel in
Babylon.
1-7k-picture- Moses and the Brass Serpent
by Judith Mehr (see Numbers 20:17, 21; 21:4-9); oil painting used in the
Gospel Art Kit for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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1-7l-picture – Christus
Christus is the name given to the 11-foot Marble LDS statue of
Jesus Christ originally crafted in 1821 by Danish Sculptor, Albert
Bertel Thorvaldsen. This statue was the first ever replica of Bertel’s
Christus statue acquired by the LDS church in 1965 and is found in
Temple Square, Salt Lake City. Replicas of his Christus statue have
transversed the globe today and have become a symbol of
Christianity, that Jesus Christ was and is the son of God
today.(http://www.christusstatue.com)
Sources:
http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0039818.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_Mesopotamia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Assurbanipal_op_jacht.jpg
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