This paper examines a group of reliefs of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BCE) from the Southwest and North Palace at Nineveh. This king, as a known antiquarian, consciously adopted different antique iconographic motifs from his predecessors that had fallen out of use. In particular, three case studies are presented: the bird of prey of the battlefield; the lotus flower held by the king; the lion hunt. The analysis is carried out through three different methodological approaches: inter pictoriality, conceptual metaphor, image metaphor.
Live and Let Live Images: Metaphor and Interpictoriality in Neo-Assyrian Art
Ludovico Portuese
2020-01-01
Abstract
This paper examines a group of reliefs of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BCE) from the Southwest and North Palace at Nineveh. This king, as a known antiquarian, consciously adopted different antique iconographic motifs from his predecessors that had fallen out of use. In particular, three case studies are presented: the bird of prey of the battlefield; the lotus flower held by the king; the lion hunt. The analysis is carried out through three different methodological approaches: inter pictoriality, conceptual metaphor, image metaphor.File in questo prodotto:
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