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The Persian architecture.
The art of those conquerors was characterized by suntuosity, the grace
and the elegance. Uncertain of to their Young culture, the Persians artistic
requested examples to the civilizations dwells outposts than they had
subjugated. They did not vacillate making uses of all class of Egyptian, jonios,
Phoenician, Babylonian forms taken to and the asirios ones. But ace they were
equipped with originality and initiative did not Copy servilely, but that gave
an own quality of them to their accomplishments. Palace, weathers and tombs: His
dwells important monuments plow the palaces. The history of to their
constructions begins AT the beginning of century VII, AT the moment AT which the
Persian tribes happen of the nomadic state to the semi-sedentary state. Ace they
demonstrate the important vestiges to it of Masjidi Solaimán, the leaned
artificial terrace to the mountain that supported the fortified dwelling of the
prince, is one of the elements characteristic of the hearing whereupon the
constructors have looked for the Seth effect. It is ten perrons stone, having
had the main one of all to near 25 mts. of wide, assure ascent. The Seth is
surrounded by to wall, with projections and entrants; composed of enormous
sillares of stone you please in dry. Around the terrace the ruin emerges from to
small village, laid the foundations to their houses with stones in dry. This
type of construction is new in the plateau. Protohistóric Although Iran there
are known the house and to head directed on to terrace, are ignored, to however,
the cyclopean equipment. To 25 km to the northeast, in Bard - I Nishandeh sees
to another similar terrace. But the Seth is dwells extensive here and next to
cistern plows the ruins of one old population. Possible it is that in these two
you please the first real of the Persians rose or built Towns, perhaps, by
Aquemenes or Teispes. The unification of the kingdom you have been able to
suggest its to producer, to transfer its capital of Masjid - I Solaimán to
Pasargadas, in richer region and to better located in relation to the Persian
tribes, who happened to central Iran of the southwest and the south of the great
desert.
Although the art of Pasargadas continues to the one of Masjid - I Solaimán
exists such difference in the architectonic program of the two real residences
that the increasing prestige of Ciro the great one can solely explain the
passage from one to the other. Of the attributed work to Candices I it does not
exist more than the terrace, with his artificial part wider than the natural
rock surface that excels of the mountain. This terrace remembers to that of
Masjid - I Solaimán. What is new in her is the working of stones of the encored
one: the massive part of the rubblework is maintained by block, simply polished,
worked like equipments to pillow rope. This technique is of Hitita origin,
adopted by the irradios fringes to Urartu, where the Persians knew it. The
surface of this terrace has still not been explored. It would support according
to the tradition, the constructed buildings of the verosil king with bricks
dried to the sun and wood, whereas the Town were developed under the protection
from the enclosure to the west of the mountain. The area of this set extended
almost 2,5 km in length. The true stone palaces, ornados with decorative
sculptures, were reached when Ciro the Great one became the gentleman of the
Average kingdom - Persian (550 a. C). In the monumental entrance of the palaces
of Ciro it is opened in the Southeastern angle of the enclosure. It formed a
room whose ceiling was maintained by two rows of four columns. The fore doors,
done in the close sides, were flanked by enormous winged bulls; and of the
doors, less wide, of the long sides, it has not been conserved more than a
single one to pound, equipped with a bas-relief that represented a genius of
four wings, with attire of elamita type, hairdo with a complicated crown that
remembers the tiaras of the Egyptian Horses. |
