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...Phoenician art felt strongly the influence of both Egypt and Assyria; we can trace the two types of art in the same bas-relief. It was a heterogenious art, in which every peculiarity was borrowed from the surrounding countries...
...most striking influence of Assyrian as well as Egyptian art can be traced in the archaic sculpture and bas-reliefs of Greece. Greek vases have been found, the figures on which are known to have been copied directly from Egyptian monuments, and the famous Doric Column is but a development of a form common in Assyrian architecture. It was not in the form alone that foreign influence is traced in Greek art; many of the ideas one derived from the Assyrian and Egyptian mythology...
...earliest sculptures that we have are, in the main, bas-reliefs, although sculpture in the round was practised to some extent...
...basreliefs, particularly the bronze cylinders representing battle scenes and religious worship are numerous, and of great interest. The Assyrian archaeology must be distinguished from the Babylonian, though they are often confused. The Assyrian proper is of much later date, and deals with more secular subjects. A long series of bas reliefs representing a battle of the Assyrians against the Elamites is especially noteworthy. The attention paid to details by the Assyrians is their characteristic in works...
...Duchess Amelia" is the title of a novel which Mr. Barrett Wendell bas written, and which will be published by Osgood...