Topic: art (3)

• ConceptAchaemenid Art and the Imperial Style

  Achaemenid art comprises the buildings, images and objects made under the Persian dynasty that ruled from the sixth to the fourth century BCE. Its most recognisable products are the royal monuments of Pasargadae, Susa, Persepolis and Naqš-e Rostam: columned halls, carved processions, figures…

• ArtworkThe Apadana Reliefs

  The Apadana reliefs are the sculptured façades of the two great stairways of the Apadana, the audience hall of Persepolis: files of Persian and Median guards, courtiers and royal grooms on one wing and, on the other, twenty-three delegations of subject peoples, each in the costume of its land,…

• ArtworkThe Winged Symbol (the figure in the winged ring)

  The winged symbol is the ring or disc with outspread wings, most often enclosing a robed male figure, that hovers above the Great King at Behistun, on the reliefs of Persepolis and over the royal tombs at Naqsh-e Rostam. It is the most conspicuous religious image of Achaemenid kingship and the…