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  title info:
    title: Color and meaning in the art of Achaemenid Persia
  name:
    name part: Nagel, Alexander
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 281 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
  abstract: This book explores the use of polychromy in the art and architecture of ancient Iran. Focusing on Persepolis, he explores the topic within the context of the modern historiography of Achaemenid art and the scientific investigation of a range of works and monuments in Iran and in museums around the world.
  table of contents: Introduction: The Most Beautiful Blues -- Defining Polychromies -- Historiographical Overview, Part I: Approaching Achaemenid Persian Polychromies in the Nineteenth Century-Ancient Literary Testimony and Modern Discourses -- Historiographical Overview, Part II: Approaching Achaemenid Persian Polychromies in the Twentieth Century -- Uncomfortable Truths: Challenges of Documenting and Preserving Achaemenid Persian Polychromies -- A Discussion: Aspects of Non-Verbal Communication in the Achaemenid Persian Empire -- Concluding Contemplations.
  note: Alexander Nagel, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-278) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ir---
  subject:
    topic: Polychromy
    geographic: Iran
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Paint materials
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: Art, Achaemenid
  classification: NA3574.A1 N34 2023
  classification: 709.35/772
  identifier: 9781009361293
  identifier: 1009361295
  identifier: 9781009361330
  identifier: 1009361333
  identifier: 9781009361309
  identifier: 2022059502
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 221213
    record change date: 20250521142401.7
    record identifier: in00004770293