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Dimensions
Image:
8.00" x 8.00"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
13.50" x 13.50"
Persian Winged Bull Framed Print
by Weston Westmoreland
Product Details
Persian Winged Bull framed print by Weston Westmoreland. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
Persian Winged Bull. Palace of Darius, Susa, Persian Empire. C. 500 BC. ... more
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Artist's Description
Persian Winged Bull. Palace of Darius, Susa, Persian Empire. C. 500 BC. Detail of an glazed brick winged aurochs in one of the friezes of the palace of Darius I in Susa. The relief of enameled, polychrome bricks shows a bull passant between two friezes of rosettes and palmettes. The bull is the symbol of the constructive force of the Achaemenian Persian empire. The animal's walking gait, with both right legs advancing together, contrary to the natural movement, is a common artistic convention. This relief derives from the winged bulls with human heads that decorated the Assyrian palaces such as that of Sargon II at Khorsabad in the late 8th century. Guardians of the gates of the royal palace, these figures are much heavier in appearance and are represented in both high-relief and in the round. This bull shown on this brick panel is also clearly inspired by the decoration of the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, built a century earlier. There are several notable differences, however, between...
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...
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