Media, Babilonia e Persia : comprendente uno studio dell'Zend-Avesta o la religione di Zoroaster, dalla caduta di Ninive per la guerra persiano . f Kyros), hadSusa ricostruito e decorato ed era il suo palacefor quale ricerca è stato fatto prima. Ma è stato trovato thatthis palace era stato distrutto da un incendio e che sulla sua topof rimane era stato eretto e anotlier moresumptuous uno, dal nipote, Artaserse, asproved da una lunga iscrizione cuneiforme, containingthat kings nome e filiazione, che correva lungo amagnificent fregio del dipinto e piastrelle smaltate, offrono-senting estensione Lions (vedere ill. 44), e wh

• Collaboratore: The Reading Room / Alamy Foto Stock
• ID dell’immagine: 2AN87PT
• Dimensioni dei file: 7,1 MB (469,8 KB Download compresso)
• Liberatorie: Modello - no | Proprietà - no
• Dimensioni: 1252 x 1996 px | 21,2 x 33,8 cm | 8,3 x 13,3 inches | 150dpi

Altre informazioni

Questa foto è un'immagine di pubblico dominio, il che significa che il copyright è scaduto o che il titolare del copyright ha rinunciato a tale diritto. Alamy addebita un costo per l'accesso alla copia ad alta risoluzione dell'immagine.

Questa immagine potrebbe avere delle imperfezioni perché è storica o di reportage.

Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . f Kyros), hadSusa rebuilt and ornamented, and it was his palacefor which search was made first. But it was found thatthis palace had been destroyed by fire, and that on topof its remains had been erected anotlier and moresumptuous one, by his grandson, Artaxerxes, asproved by a long cuneiform inscription, containingthat kings name and parentage, which ran along amagnificent frieze of painted and glazed tiles, repre-senting striding lions (see ill. 44), and which formed thedecoration of the pillared porticos. Of course thefrieze was not found in its place or entire, but had tobe patiently pieced together of fragments. These, however, turned up in such cpumtities as to allow therestoration of the frieze in a state very near complete-ness. A procession was thus obtained of nine ofthese superb animals, a work of art which was pro-nounced in no way inferior to the Babylonian modelsfrom which it is imitated. In the same manner, out of fragments carefully * See Story of Assyria, pp. 399, 400.. 14 a H — ^ p Q ?J ci. w A O ?2 I -qO 2 33^ M/:ju.i, n.uiy/.ox, jxj) j/:As/.t. collcctcil, ]1 f. I )iriil;if()}succc-ciUd in rcconsl ructingiinollicr marxcllous piece of work, a frieze represent-ing archers of tlu: royal guard. One day, he says, thr-would hriuL; nie a hand, llie next a foot in agolden boot. Adding piece to piece as they fitted, I put together the feet, ankles, legs, the skirt, thebod)-, the arm, the shoulder, and at last the head ofan archer. There was a procession of them as wellas t)f the lions. (See Frontispiece.) The costume issumptuous to the last degree ; it is the graceful andbecoming Median robe, the drapery of which, inthe natural fall and softness of the folds already be-trays the influence of Greek art, grafted on the con-ventional model of Assyrian slab-sculpture. Thecut of the clothes is the same for all, but the mate-

Parole chiave associate all'immagine

• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1880