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The complete history of
Chaldaeo-Assyria and its art has yet to be written.

PERSIAN PAINTING.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED: As before cited, Babelon, Duncker,
Lenormant, Ely; Dieulafoy, _L'Art Antique de la Perse_;
Flandin et Coste, _Voyage en Perse_; Justi, _Geschichte des
alten Persiens_; Perrot and Chipiez, _History of Art in
Persia_.

HISTORY AND ART MOTIVES: The Medes and Persians were the natural
inheritors of Assyrian civilization, but they did not improve their
birthright. The Medes soon lost their power. Cyrus conquered them, and
established the powerful Persian monarchy upheld for two hundred years
by Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes. Substantially the same conditions
surrounded the Persians as the Assyrians--that is, so far as art
production was concerned. Their conceptions of life were similar, and
their use of art was for historic illustration of kingly doings and
ornamental embellishment of kingly palaces. Both sculpture and
painting were accessories of architecture.


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