MESOPOTAMIAN

MESOPOTAMIAN

1. 3500 – 300 B.C.E.

   • Art was made from natural resources such as stone, shells, alabaster and marble, and was often created as didactic pieces.

2. Popular items that typify this time period

   • cylindrical seals, steles..
   • narrative relief sculptures, and lavishly decorated tombs.

3. devised a system of see thumbnail to rightcuneiform writing (marks on clay tablets made by impressing this plastic material with wedge-shaped ends of carved sticks)

4. No artist signatures can be found on most of the work

5. The major civilizations that flourished

   • Akkadians
   • Hitties (1600-1200 BC)
   • the Persians (559-331 BC).

6. Examples of Mesopotamian art:

   • The Superintendent of Mari
   • Throne room of the king's palace.
     • Opinion:The mesopotamian art developed a little rigid art, geometric, thus as a practice finality and not aesthetic.
   • Ashurnasirpal II at War, c. 875 BCE

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