Syrian Art at the Met - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
2013年9月25日 · Syrian art is represented in six areas of the Met: Greek and Roman; Islamic; Medieval; Ancient Near Eastern; Musical Instruments; and Arms and Armor. Here we have gathered examples from each department to highlight the range and beauty of Syrian art and to raise public awareness of what its historic cultures produced.
National Museum Of Damascus | virtual-museum-syria
This museum covers the entire range of Syrian history over a span of over 11 millennia, and displays various important artifacts. Established in 1919, during King Faisal’s Arab Kingdom of Syria, the museum is the oldest cultural heritage institution in Syria.
Ebla to Damascus: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Syria
Pottery, cylinder seals, statuary, bas-reliefs, precious jewelry, cuneiform tablets, wall paintings, ivory carvings, and funerary monuments illustrated the cultural history of Syria from 8000 B.C. to 1600 A.D.
Assyria, 1365–609 B.C. - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
After several centuries of obscurity and even loss of independence from around 1400 B.C. under the powerful northern Mesopotamian state of Mitanni, Assyria’s fortunes revived in the reign of Ashur-uballit I (1365–1330 B.C.).
UNCOVERING ANCIENT ART FROM SYRIA - Los Angeles Times
1986年3月29日 · Spanning 10,000 years--from 8,000 BC to AD 1,600--the 281 objects on display include fertility figures, life-size statues, inscribed clay tablets, filigree gold jewelry, faded frescoes, old and...
Syro-Palestinian art and architecture - Encyclopedia Britannica
Syro-Palestinian art and architecture, the art and architecture of ancient Syria and Palestine. The countries bordering the Mediterranean between the Sinai Peninsula and the Nur Dağları (Amanus Mountains), to which the names Palestine and Syria are often loosely applied, had in fact no geographic integrity or clear historical definition.
The Visual Arts in Syria, from its Roots to Contemporary Art
Syrian iconography flourished in the mid 17th century, most prominently at the hands of Yusuf Al-Mussawir from Aleppo, a painter, calligrapher and translator. There were two factors behind his genius: firstly, an earnest will for comprehensive growth in the country, and secondly, inherited Syrian artistic traditions which Al-Mussawir would have ...
Ebla to Damascus : art and archaeology of ancient Syria : an …
2020年4月8日 · Ebla to Damascus : art and archaeology of ancient Syria : an exhibition from the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums of the Syrian Arab Republic. Weiss, Harvey, 1945-; Syria. Mudīrīyat al-Āthār wa-al-Matāḥif; Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service; Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.)
Syria Through an Artistic Lens | SyriaUntold | حكاية ما انحكت
2019年6月5日 · Ali Jazo writes about the history of art in Syria, its relationship to the society and authority prior to the Syrian revolution and examines the impact it had on art. Stories Testimonies
Palmyra | Essay - Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palmyra was originally an oasis settlement, called Tadmor, in the northern Syrian Desert. Although the Roman province of Syria was created in 64 B.C., the inhabitants of Tadmor, primarily Aramaeans and Arabs, remained semi-independent for over half a century.