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Art Institute of Chicago - Wikipedia

One of the two lion statues (Kemeys, bronze 1893) flanking the Institute's main entrances

Cultural depictions of lions - Wikipedia

Lions have been widely used in sculpture to provide a sense of majesty and awe, especially on public buildings. Lions were bold creatures and many ancient cities would have an abundance of lion sculptures to show strength in numbers as well.

Mesopotamian Art - Art Encyclopedia

Art of Mesopotamia (4500-539 BCE): Ceramics, Statues, Reliefs, Mosaics, Ziggurats: Sumer, Babylonia, Akkad, Assyrian Empire

Mesopotamian art and architecture | Characteristics, Facts ...

Mesopotamian art and architecture: Mesopotamian art and architecture, the art and architecture of the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations.

Ancient Persian Art - Art Encyclopedia

Horse Head in gilded silver (350 CE) Example of Sassanid metalwork from Kerman. Louvre, Paris. Persian Art: Introduction (3500-1700 BCE) Persia, one of the oldest countries in the world, and one of the earliest civilizations in the history of art, occupies the Persian plateau, bounded by the Elburz and Baluchistan mountains in the north and east.

The 50 Best Works Of Public Art In Greater Boston, Ranked ...

This list, from The ARTery's Greg Cook, adopts a more expansive definition of art.

Hindu Wisdom - Hindu Art

"The man who knows nothing of music, literature, or art is no better than a beast," ancient Hindu wisdom warned, "only without a beast's tail or teeth."

Lydian Lion - Ancients.info

The First Coin. The most fundamental debate involving these coins is whether the Lydian Lion is in fact the world's first true coin. Much here depends on what definition you use for "coin."

1931-1942 Brussels & Pre-War Years - Matteson Art

135 Esseghem Street, Jette (outskirts of Brussels) By 1930 Magritte became tired of waiting for a one-man exhibition. Paris was in the midst of recession after the 1929 Great Depression.

Assyrie — Wikipédia

Le souvenir du royaume assyrien perdurait dans la tradition occidentale avant les premières fouilles sur les sites de l'Assyrie par le biais de plusieurs sources antiques [1].