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Persian art
Persian art or Iranian art (Persian: هنر ایرانی, romanized: Honar-è Irâni) has one of the richest art heritages in world history and has been strong in many media including architecture, painting, weaving, pottery, calligraphy, metalworking and sculpture. Wikipedia
15 works in the quiz. Play a round on Persian art — not whether it is theirs, but which one.
Works
- “Persian horseman”, 489 BC — Acropolis Museum
- “Statue of Darius I”, 490 BC — Museum of Ancient Iran
- “Shami statue”, 100 AD — Museum of Ancient Iran
- “Achaemenid prince's head (National Museum of Iran)”, 500 BC — Museum of Ancient Iran
- “furniture leg in the shape of a lion leg”, 499 BC — Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre
- “head of a gazelle or an antilope with incrusts for eyes”, 499 BC — Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre
- “dagger snap ornated with a lion devouring an ibex”, 499 BC — Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre
- “dagger pommel with a twin animal protome”, 499 BC — Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre
- “sharpener handle in the shape of the front of a winged, androcephalous mouflon”, 349 BC — Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre
- “bust of a Sassanid king”, 401 AD — Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre
- “architectural element in the shape of a bull”, 499 BC — Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre
- “Fragments of a statuette : head wearing the Persian crown”, 499 BC — Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre
- “Relief depicting a gazelle”, 499 BC — Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre
- “head of a gazelle or an antilope with missing incrusts for eyes”, 499 BC — Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre
- “Vase with grape harvesting scenes BM 1897.12-31.189”, 600 AD — British Museum