Ancient Persian Artefacts - Louvre Museum - Pictures & Images { 49 images } Created 1 Feb 2015
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Pictures images & photos of ancient Persian sculpture relief panels and sculptures from the Louvre Museum Paris. This picture gallery of Persian sculpture relief panels and sculptures shows coloured glazed terracotta brick panels depicting Achaemenid Persian royal bodyguards or archers. From the reign of Darius 1st and the First Persian or Achaemenid Empire around 510 BC excavated from the Palace of Darius 1st Susa, present day Iran. Susa was one of the residential cities of the Achaemenid Kings. The Palaces are noteworthy for their elaborate decorations which can be considered exemplary of art at a royal court. The walls of Darius’s palace at Susa were embellished with colourful reliefs made from glazed bricks on the Babylonian model. It is not certain which rooms of the palace was decorated with representations of a procession of royal bodyguards or archers, dressed in richly decorative costumes. . Pictures and images of Persian sculpture relief panels and sculptures from the Louvre can be bought on line as photo art prints or downloaded as high resolution stock photos
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Pictures images & photos of ancient Persian sculpture relief panels and sculptures from the Louvre Museum Paris. This picture gallery of Persian sculpture relief panels and sculptures shows coloured glazed terracotta brick panels depicting Achaemenid Persian royal bodyguards or archers. From the reign of Darius 1st and the First Persian or Achaemenid Empire around 510 BC excavated from the Palace of Darius 1st Susa, present day Iran. Susa was one of the residential cities of the Achaemenid Kings. The Palaces are noteworthy for their elaborate decorations which can be considered exemplary of art at a royal court. The walls of Darius’s palace at Susa were embellished with colourful reliefs made from glazed bricks on the Babylonian model. It is not certain which rooms of the palace was decorated with representations of a procession of royal bodyguards or archers, dressed in richly decorative costumes. . Pictures and images of Persian sculpture relief panels and sculptures from the Louvre can be bought on line as photo art prints or downloaded as high resolution stock photos
USEFUL LINKS:
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_art
Persian Art Collection ; https://funkystock.photoshelter.com/gallery/Ancient-Persian-Art-Scuplture-Museum-Antiquities-Pictures-Images/G0000kJmlmWnpW2E/C0000q_tZnliJD08
Add photos of Louvre Museum Ancient Persian antiquities to cart as royalty free download or prints or download from our Alamy Stock Library page at https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/paul-williams-funkystock/persian-antiquities.html
