History of the Built Environment I (ID 108)

Covers the aesthetic traditions of Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia, and the Levant, from Neolithic times to the end of the Achaemenid Persian Empire around 330 BCE. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

A comprehensive survey of the whole range of ancient Near Eastern architecture from the Neolithic round huts in Palestine to the giant temples of Ptolemaic Egypt. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the history and religion of Nineveh, with information about Ishtar and other deities, art and architecture, and images of Nineveh in European art. Includes maps and color photographs. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Black and white photographs and line drawings of ornamental wall paintings produced in Assyria, from the thirteenth to the seventh centuries BCE. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

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An overview of the history and culture of the Aramaean kingdoms of Syria from the 12th to the end of the 8th century B.C., with chapters on art and architecture. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

More than 30 articles focusing on the visual, material, and environmental art. A list of illustrations at the beginning provides helpful search terms to find the images. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the tradition of representation Babylonian and Assyrian arts as a way to participate in the world and to have an effect upon it in natural, magical, and supernatural ways. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Provides an overview of the artistic traditions of Mesopotamia, or ancient Iraq, from the fourth millennium BCE to the fourteenth century CE.

Explores the common characteristics and themes running through Persian art from the ancient Persian civilization in 500 BC, through the Islamic period, and on to the modern era.

Explores the spectacular art of the first millennium BCE from the Near East to Western Europe.

Presents a comprehensive survey of art and architecture in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, northeast Syria and southeast Turkey), from 8000 BCE to the arrival of Islam in 636 CE.

Highlights ancient Near Eastern and Persian antiquities and archaeological sites and explores the tensions and relations between the inhabitants of lowland Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) and the highlands of Iran, covering the period 6000 BCE to 650 CE, from the development of the first agricultural communities to the coming of Islam.