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Persian Lions Left and Right Poster
by Weston Westmoreland
$36.56
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Persian Lions Left and Right poster by Weston Westmoreland. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Persian Lions Frieze, Susa, Persian Empire, 500 BC. Left and right lions put together.
Detail of two sections of the Frieze of Lions put... more
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Persian Lions Frieze, Susa, Persian Empire, 500 BC. Left and right lions put together.
Detail of two sections of the Frieze of Lions put together, a decorative glazed-brick frieze from the first court of Darius I’s palace at Susa.
A declaration of royal power, embodied in the king of beasts. In its iconography and composition, it was one of the most markedly Mesopotamian elements in this Persian palace. The two separated sections are shown one next to the other in the image.
The Frieze of Lions is one of the rare decorative features of Darius’s palace at Susa to have been found more or less in its original place, at the foot of the north wall of the Eastern Court. The court probably housed an open-air throne. The frieze ran along the top of the wall, crowned by the still-visible battlements, the whole punctuated by the tall verticals of poles that probably carried flags . The scattered fragments of a trilingual inscription were found at the same place. The lions p...
About Weston Westmoreland
Hi there, Born in '72 and shooting pictures since '83, I particularly enjoy creating wide panoramic compositions, HDRs, HDR Panoramas... But not just... Here you will find landscapes and cityscapes, ancient ruins and modern buildings, moons and seas, planes and boats, guns and flowers, animals and machines, forests and deserts, vanguard and prehistory, digital and film, color and black & white, graves and newborns, temples, trenches, palaces, castles, tanks, churches, bunkers... However, they have some things in common: they are meaningful images, I believe them all to be beautiful, and they are for the most part unique. Come in and judge for yourself. W. W. WE CAN CUSTOMIZE ANY PICTURE TO YOUR PERSONAL LIKING AND MAKE IT...