Word: egyptian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...Babylon by the Assyrians. There was again a short revival during the hundred years when Babylon freed herself from the Assyrian yoke. The temples give most information and are of three great classes. The first were built on high mounds or mountains and sometimes attained the height of the Egyptian pyramids. The second were tremendous structures of seven stories, erected for worship of the heavenly bodies. It is supposed that one story corresponded to each planet. The exterior decoration was of enamelled bricks, as the hot climate prevented the use of more delicate materials. Still some beautiful effects were produced...
...monumental sculpture in early forms shows a strong resemblance to the Egyptian, particularity in the shape of the heads, thus leading us to infer that the art is not Semitic. The 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...
...sketch from Sargon I. to Nabonidus. The great art-centres and their historical relation; Erech, Ur, Sippar, Nippur, Babilu, Borsippa, Kutha, Larsa, Zirpurla, etc. Their great temples, sculpture and decoration. Characteristics of this art: was it in part Shemitic? Metal-work, especially bronze: enamelling: cylinders. Correspondence of types of Egyptian sculpture of early dynastics with some Babylonian sculpture, especially that of the recent discoveries at Tel-Loh. Distinctive marks of Babylonian and Assyrian art. Secular character of the latter. History of Assyrian art. The great cities of Assur (Kileh-Shergat), Ninevah and Calah; their palaces and temples. The Assyrian palace...
...Harvard, the first university in the land, with a library shrouded in Egyptian darkness in the hours when men's brains are liable to be most active, is the disgusted cry we have heard about us for months. Every earnest student feels the painful and unwarranted deeds that is put to his reading hours by the shrill cry, "library closed" at sunset every...