The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient

by Henri Frankfort

Other authors: Judy Nairn (Assistant series editor), Nikolaus Pevsner (Series editor)

Series: The Pelican History of Art

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Traces the development of Mesopotamian art from Sumerian times to the late Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods. This text also covers the art and architecture of Asia Minor and the Hittites, of the Levant in the second millennium BC, of the Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria, and of Ancient Persia.

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The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient

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1954 (1st edition)

1970 (4th edition)

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Strictly speaking, a history of the art of the ancient Near East has never been written. (Introduction)

Mesopotomia is ill defined. To the west it fades into the emptiness of Arabia; in the north it can barely be separated from the fertile plains of north Syria, with which it is, indeed, connected by a main artery of caravan traffic along the Euphrates. (main body)

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Traces the development of Mesopotamian art from Sumerian times to the late Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods. This text also covers the art and architecture of Asia Minor and the Hittites, of the Levant in the second millennium BC, of the Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria, and of Ancient Persia.

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