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Author : Austen Henry Layard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Architecture, Assyro-Babylonian
ISBN : HARVARD:32044005000831
Author : Austen Henry Layard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Art, Assyro-Babylonian
ISBN : 1402121180
Author : Austen Henry Layard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527758397
Excerpt from The Ninevah Court in the Crystal Palace This entire disappearance of Nineveh, whilst the other great capitals of the ancient world had left some visible traces of their principal monuments, by which their site could be determined, is chiefly to be attributed to the materials of which it was constructed. The Assyrians did not, like the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, build their palaces and temples either of granite, precious marbles, or durable stone, but even their public edifices, as well as their humblest habitations, were of bricks made of clay mixed with chopmd straw, and merely dried in the sun. Without the chopped straw the clay would not have been bound together, or have had sufficient consistency for use hence the meaning of the passage in the book of Exodus (chap. V. Which describes the hardships of the Jews when the Egyptians refused to supply them with straw to make their bricks. Other materials, such as marble, alabaster, stone, and kiln-burnt bricks, generally painted or glazed, were used by the Assyrians in their principal edifices, but to a com putatively limited extent, and only by way of ornament. Hence, when the buildings were once deserted, the upper walls and stories soon fell in and buried the lower. The bricks of clay became earth again, and the ruins would assume the appearance of more natural heaps and mounds rising in the plain, upon which the grass grew and corn might be sown. And such have been the ruins of Nineveh for more than two thousand years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Sir Austen Henry Layard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:960646003
This book describes the Nineveh court of Assyrian art and architecture on display at the Crystal Palace.
Author : Austen Henry Layard
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1375440659
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Author : Austen Henry Layard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Architecture, Assyro-Babylonian
ISBN : BSB:BSB10257043
Author : Crystal Palace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590274915
Author : Manchester Chetham's libr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555060740
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Manuscripts
ISBN : NYPL:33433069266587
Author : Robert Ferguson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Nineveh (Extinct city)
ISBN : BSB:BSB10256758
Author : Jan Piggott
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0299200949
Built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace originally graced London's Hyde Park with Joseph Paxton's remarkable geometric design and groundbreaking use of glass elements, prefiguring the modern movement in architecture. After the exhibition a group of bankers, railway directors, and men of influence moved the structure to a new site in south London, rebuilt it to an even grander scale, and set about its promotion as a "palace for the multitude." Here were exhibitions, concerts, and spectaculars to fill a splendid day out for Londoners of all classes and interests. Filled with plaster casts of great art treasures, life-sized models of dinosaurs, waterworks, and gardens, the Crystal Palace became a center of both education and entertainment from the Victorian era through its destruction by fire in1936. Copublished with C. Hurst & Co., London Wisconsin edition for sale only in North and South America, U.S. territories and dependencies, and the Philippines.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026841008
Author : John Malcolm Russell,Judith Sheila McKenzie,Judith McKenzie,Stephanie Dalley,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Metropolitan Museum of Art Staff
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300064594
The strange story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School. This volume includes previously unpublished photographs, illustrations from rare nineteenth century sources, and passages from the diary of Lady Charlotte Guest (cousin of Austen Henry Layard).
Author : S. Sharpe
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9785885015356
The Fine Art's courts in the Crystal Palace. First series. North-West side. The Egyptian court; the Greek court; an apology for colouring the Greek court; the Roman court; the Alhambra court; the Nineveh court.
Author : Professor Shawn Malley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409479178
In his examination of the excavation of ancient Assyria by Austen Henry Layard, Shawn Malley reveals how, by whom, and for what reasons the stones of Assyria were deployed during a brief but remarkably intense period of archaeological activity in the mid-nineteenth century. His book encompasses the archaeological practices and representations that originated in Layard's excavations, radiated outward by way of the British Museum and Layard's best-selling Nineveh and Its Remains (1849), and were then dispersed into the public domain of popular amusements. That the stones of Assyria resonated in debates far beyond the interests of religious and scientific groups is apparent in the prevalence of poetry, exhibitions, plays, and dioramas inspired by the excavation. Of particular note, correspondence involving high-ranking diplomatic personnel and museum officials demonstrates that the 'treasures' brought home to fill the British Museum served not only as signs of symbolic conquest, but also as covert means for extending Britain's political and economic influence in the Near East. Malley takes up issues of class and influence to show how the middle-class Layard's celebrity status both advanced and threatened aristocratic values. Tellingly, the excavations prompted disturbing questions about the perils of imperial rule that framed discussions of the social and political conditions which brought England to the brink of revolution in 1848 and resurfaced with a vengeance during the Crimean crisis. In the provocative conclusion of this meticulously documented and suggestive book, Malley points toward the striking parallels between the history of Britain's imperial investment in Mesopotamia and the contemporary geopolitical uses and abuses of Assyrian antiquity in post-invasion Iraq.
