Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited; New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son · leaf 409
r product of Mesopotamian art. There is notrace of the heaviness to which we alluded in our section on jewelry. VOL. II. 3 ^ 370 A History of Art in CnALOiEA and Assyria. The impression made by these compositions as a whole isintensified when we examine their separate details. The varietyof the… … Fig. 256,—Detail of embroidery ; from Layar.l, of the winged genii at Nimroud (Fig. 255). The sacred treesurrounded by a square frame of rosettes and wavy lines occupiesthe centre, the palmette throws out its wide fronds at one end.In another example we find a human-headed lion, mitred and Jl^x--
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