Presentation about Mesopotamian art

2. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
Materials: adobe and bricks, covered with stone  Richness.
Constructive elements:
arches and vaults
(their invention)

3. TYPES OF BUILDINGS
Palaces  Decorated with sculptures.
Temples  Each one dedicated to a god.

4. TYPES OF BUILDINGS
Ziggurat  Terraced pyramid. The upper level
was a sanctuary and astronomical observatory.

5. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
Rulers and important people,
decoration, propaganda and creatures.
Idealisation  representing something
better than what it actually is. Generally
used for important people.
Hierarchical perspective  The
characters are larger depending on their
importance.

6. TYPES:
Free standing sculpture
(not attached to other
surfaces)
Patesi Gudea (Lagash)

7. TYPES:
Relieves (Sg: relief)  partly attached to a
background surface (Bas, mid and high relief)
Representation of rulers
* Code of Hammurabi

8. Propaganda (for glorification of public figures)
* Victory stele of Naram Sin

9. Decoration
* Ishtar Gates
(Babylon, Neo-Babylonian)

10. Decoration
* Winged Bulls (Niniveh, Assyrian)

11. Decoration
* Wounded lioness
(Nimrud, Neo-Assyrian)