Gardner’s 11th ed., p. 16
http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/waymac/History%20A/A%20Term%201/4.%20Sumerians/slides.htm
Chapter 2 - ANCIENT NEAR EAST
Content Area 2: Ancient Mediterranean 35000BCE – 300 CE
Historical Context • Society advanced – written record - law codes, scientific
observation of heavens, math, unified measurements, weaving, metalcraft – bronze casting, pottery, temple worship, the wheel.
• kingly form of government • Organized religion:
• Judaism –monotheistic • Other cultures – polytheistic (Anu, Enlil, Inanna/
Ishtar, Utu)
Stylistic Characteristics • Religion plays a part in art: divine kings, cosmology
guiding representation of deities. • Cosmology: study of the Universe and its components,
how it formed, how it evolved and what is its future • conventions of human form: combined profile with
three-quarter view • hierarchy of scale • registers • architecture: ziggurats – for worshipping deities,
palaces (heavily fortified) proclaim power and authority of rulers.
Bushel with ibex motifs
Meander pattern
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White Temple and ziggurat, Uruk
2-2 Reconstruction drawing of the White Temple and ziggurat
http://www.coco.cc.az.us/apetersen/_ART201/sumeria.htm
Bent Axis
Temple (cella)
Ziggurat
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Statuettes of Worshipers Votive Figures
www.accd.edu/.../arts1303/Chapter2.htm
www.accd.edu/.../arts1303/Chapter2.htm
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Standard of Ur
Registers, Narrative, Hierarchy of Scale , Inlay
http://www.accd.edu/sac/vat/arthistory/arts1303/Chapter2.htm www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/ue/uec.html www.britannica.com
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Stele with law code of Hammurabi Hierarchy of Scale
Predecessor to Foreshortening – Depth suggested by an object at an angle
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Lamassu
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registers Persepolis (royal audience hall - apadana)
Reconstruction of apadana with bull capitals
faculty.evansville.edu/.../sum04/art105-12.html Bull Capitals
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Video: Reconstruction of
Persepolis from LACMA (5 min)
Persepolis (royal audience hall - apadana
Registers Hierarchy of Scale Isocephalic