Inspired By Assyria: Ancient Iraq & Victorian Britain

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When the grand palaces of ancient Assyria were excavated in the nineteenth century, a creative meeting between two vastly different empires began. This Bulletin explores the art of the Neo-Assyrian Empire—centered in northern Iraq between the ninth and seventh centuries BCE— alongside the British Assyrian Revival style that followed millennia later. As European audiences developed a fascination with the discoveries made at the archaeological sites in Nineveh and Nimrud, British artists produced drawings as…