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The Assyrian artistic style was dominant art in Mesopotamia, and was like in 1500 B.C. and lasted until the fall of Nineveh in 612 B.C. The style of Assyrian art was the carved stone that decorated imperial monuments - royalty, hunting and war making. Predominance is given to animal forms, like horses and lions, which are represented in great detail. Human art figures are also detailed, as in triumphal scenes of sieges, battles, and individual combat. So yah, stone and stuff.
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In the Assyrian(s) sculptures the Assyarian(s) did a very elivated art. Where the images where slightly above the base. I really like the sculptures at the base of arches. Everything looked very warrior like. Faught for their food and what not.
Even though the Assyrians constructed their buildings with mud brick they took the time to adorn the lower parts of walls and gateways with limestone reliefs. Most depicted combat.
All right well i can't explain it as well as the books can so i'm just going to find the simplest factual answer and give it to you. i really have no opinion and would rather site my sourse, than bodge up the facts.
Assyrian art.
An Assyrian artistic style distinct from that of Babylonian art (see Sumerian and Babylonian art), which was the dominant contemporary art in Mesopotamia, began to emerge c.1500 B.C. and lasted until the fall of Nineveh in 612 B.C. The characteristic Assyrian art form was the polychrome carved stone relief that decorated imperial monuments. The precisely delineated reliefs concern royal affairs, chiefly hunting and war making. Predominance is given to animal forms, particularly horses and lions, which are magnificently represented in great detail. Human figures are comparatively rigid and static but are also minutely detailed, as in triumphal scenes of sieges, battles, and individual combat. Among the best known of Assyrian reliefs are the lion-hunt alabaster carvings showing Assurnasirpal II (9th cent. B.C.) and Assurbanipal (7th cent. B.C.), both of which are in the British Museum. Guardian animals, usually lions and winged beasts with bearded human heads, were sculpted partially in the round for fortified royal gateways, an architectural form common throughout Asia Minor. At Nimrud carved ivories and bronze bowls were found that are decorated in the Assyrian style but were produced by Phoenician and Aramaean artisans. Exquisite examples of Assyrian relief carving may be seen at the British and Metropolitan museums.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0805096.html
Assyrian art began surfacing in 1500 b.c. Most of it was hand carved into sculputers that were very detailed. They showed there history through art. Thats why much of it was so massive and so meaningful.
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