From Nineveh To Newyork The Strange Story Of The Assyrian Reliefs In The Metropolitan Museum And The Hidden Masterpiece At Canford School
Download From Nineveh To Newyork The Strange Story Of The Assyrian Reliefs In The Metropolitan Museum And The Hidden Masterpiece At Canford School full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free From Nineveh To Newyork The Strange Story Of The Assyrian Reliefs In The Metropolitan Museum And The Hidden Masterpiece At Canford School ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
From Nineveh to New York
Author | : John Malcolm Russell,Judith Sheila McKenzie,Judith McKenzie,Stephanie Dalley,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Metropolitan Museum of Art Staff |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0300064594 |
Download From Nineveh to New York Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The strange story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School. This volume includes previously unpublished photographs, illustrations from rare nineteenth century sources, and passages from the diary of Lady Charlotte Guest (cousin of Austen Henry Layard).
From Nineveh to Newyork The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School
Author | : John Malcom Russell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Iraq |
ISBN | : OCLC:1030084229 |
Download From Nineveh to Newyork The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Keeping Their Marbles
Author | : Tiffany Jenkins |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2016-02-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780191631894 |
Download Keeping Their Marbles Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many of the objects on display were acquired by coercion or theft. Now the countries from which these treasures came would like them back. The Greek demand for the return of the Elgin Marbles is the tip of an iceberg that includes claims for the Benin Bronzes from Nigeria, sculpture from Turkey, scrolls and porcelain taken from the Chinese Summer Palace, textiles from Peru, the bust of Nefertiti, Native American sacred objects, and Aboriginal human remains. In Keeping Their Marbles, Tiffany Jenkins tells the bloody story of how western museums came to acquire these objects. She investigates why repatriation claims have soared in recent decades and demonstrates how it is the guilt and insecurity of the museums themselves that have stoked the demands for return. Contrary to the arguments of campaigners, she shows that sending artefacts back will not achieve the desired social change nor repair the wounds of history. Instead, this ground-breaking book makes the case for museums as centres of knowledge, demonstrating that no object has a single home, and no one culture owns culture.
Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
Author | : Ada Cohen,Steven E. Kangas |
Publsiher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781584658177 |
Download Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An insider's look at the iconography and history of Assyrian reliefs and the West's fascination with these ancient monuments
The British Museum s Excavations at Nineveh 1846 1855
Author | : Geoffrey Turner |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 814 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004435377 |
Download The British Museum s Excavations at Nineveh 1846 1855 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Geoffrey Turner's definitive study of the mid-19th century excavations by the British Museum at the Assyrian site of Nineveh documents the complete history of these excavations and provides detailed reconstructions of the architecture and sculpture in the palace of Sennacherib.
Palace and Temple
Author | : Clifford Mark McCormick |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2012-10-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783110907940 |
Download Palace and Temple Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book is a critical study of the role played by architecture and texts in promoting political and religious ideologies in the ancient world. It explains a palace as an element in royal propaganda seeking to influence social concepts about kingship, and a text about a temple as influencing social concepts about the relationship between God and human beings. Applying the methods of analysis developed in built environment studies, the author interprets the palace and temple building programs of Sennacherib, King of Assyria, and Solomon, King of Israel. The physical evidence for the palace and the verbal evidence for the temple are explained as presenting communicative icons intended to influence contemporary political and religious concepts. The volume concludes with innovative interpretations of the contributions of architectural and verbal icons to religious and political reform.
Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace
Author | : Ada Cohen,Steven E. Kangas |
Publsiher | : University Press of New England |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781611689983 |
Download Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
One of the best-known images of the ancient Near East is an intriguing nineteenth-century color lithograph reconstructing the throne room of an Assyrian palace. Executed shortly after the archaeological rediscovery of Assyria, a land theretofore known only from the Bible, it was published by the most famous among early excavators of Assyrian ruins, Austen Henry Layard. Over time and despite criticisms, the picture has shaped the understanding and reception of ancient Mesopotamian architecture and architectural decoration. Inside an Ancient Assyrian Palace studies this influential image in depth, both at the time of its creation in London in the eventful year 1848 and in terms of its afterlife. A hidden inscription reveals unsuspected contributions by the renowned architect-designer Owen Jones and his colleague the architect-Egyptologist Joseph Bonomi. Also unexpected is the involvement of an enigmatic German artist who later emigrated to America and whose previous career in Europe had been lost to scholarship. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of art history and the ancient Near East. It will also be of relevance to museum visitors and others interested in the ancient world in general, in the art of the nineteenth century, and in design and historical reconstruction.
Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Author | : Stephen Bertman |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2005-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195183641 |
Download Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Modern-day archaeological discoveries in the Near East continue to illuminate man's understanding of the ancient world. This illustrated handbook describes the culture, history, and people of Mesopotamia, as well as their struggle for survival and happiness.