Today’s blog post will be focusing on Sumerian Art (4000-2000 B.C.) and the other blog post will ... It would seem that the “Standard of Ur” is a way to document their past history, what life was like ...

The art of the Sumerian cities was almost universally oriented ... In roughly the last third of the millennium our knowledge of history and social life becomes enriched through the many readable ...

As in so much of Sumerian art, the facial expressions of the statues tell a story of their own. Some of the worshippers are strained and goggle-eyed; others are composed and serene. The Sumerians ...

670 lb.) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1931 (31.13.1) Image: www.metmuseum.org. VEX.2020.1.2) In Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins, the new exhibition at the Getty Villa ...

We are standing at the threshold of History Begins in Mesopotamia, a new exhibition ... artefacts as well as magnificent works of art, such as an alabaster statue, from around 2250BC, of a seated ...

She lived more than 4,000 years ago, she was a Sumerian priestess and ... rarely seen throughout art history—seems almost unbelievable. Other sculptures on view are diminutive figures of ...

Sir Leonard Woolley's lecture on “The Racial Elements in Sumerian Art History” before the Royal Society of Arts on February 19 (J. Roy. Soc. Arts, 84, April 3, 1936) afforded an example of the ...