Identifier: stylesofornament00spel (find matches)
Title: Styles of ornament, exhibited in designs, and arranged in historical order, with descriptive text. A handbook for architects, designers, painters, sculptors, wood-carvers, chasers, modellers, cabinet-makers and artistic locksmiths as well as also for technical schools, libraries and private study
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Speltz, Alexander O'Conor, David
Subjects: Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York : E. Weyhe
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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cient times. Thesupremacy was ever changing and neverfixed, and, as a consequence, the peopleswho inhabited it were not in a position todevelop any independent art distinct fromeach other. The conquerors or the con-quered were always naturally influencedby the more advanced section of those withwhom they were brought into contact. Forthese reasons, it is clear that Persian orna-ment can show but very little characteristicpeculiarities, Egyptian, Assyrian and Helle-nic influences being all plainly discernable.The beautiful buildings of the Persian kings were erected by artists who were made prisoners in the wars in Babylonia, Egypt, and in the Grecian colonies in Asia Minor. The first beginnings in Persian art were very probably made by the Medes, a people who conquered the kingdom of the Elamites with its capital city Susa Imbossed work, representing the kingXerxes upon the throne (Roger-Miles). 30 PERSIAN ORNAMENT. Plate 11. njTijiriiTUT\iTijTLj) •) €> (& @ © ® ® Q ©^^
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PERSIAN ORNAMENT. 31 in the 7*** century B. C. an then founded a powerful state making Egbatana thecapital, but who were, later on themselves subjugated in the year 550 B. C. bythe Persians under Cyrus. No remains, however, of a special Median art haveever been discovered. Persia developed into the most powerful empire in theworld under the reigns of Cyrus (559—529), Cambyses (529—522), Darius521—485), and Xerxes (485—465 B. C), but was in its turn conquered byAlexander the Great in the year 330 B. C. From the years 312 to 284 B. C.it was under the sway of the Seleucidae, from 284 B. C. to 284 A. D. it wassubject to the Parthians, and from 284 A. D. to 641 A. D. to the Sassanians.Under the sway of the latter a new Persian Empire was established whichflourished until it finally became subject to Islamite supremacy. The Islamiteswhen in decided power changed entirelv the character of Art then flourishing,giving it an entirely new direction an turning it on to entirely different

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