Assyrian relief sculpture:
The Assyrian sculptor understood the art of deletion better than his predecessors, and every line he carved was a pictorial expression
Filled with some devotional meaning or religious thought, this appeared in ivory artifacts (combs and ivory boxes widely decorated with drawings drawn with skill and mastery), as well as decorated vases and alabaster jars. Assyrian art developed clearly in construction and wall paintings.
The wonderful paintings that decorated the royal palaces used four colors: white, black, red, and blue. As for the pictorial subjects, they were formed on the surfaces of hand-made paintings and framed with decorative bands so that they looked more like architectural filling.
Among the most famous works is the huge winged bull guarding the entrances to the roads, reliefs of the Assyrian palaces on thin alabaster panels, which were originally painted at least in part and mounted on the walls of each of the main rooms of the palaces. Most of them are in the museums of Europe or America, after a difficult period of excavations from 1842 to 1855, which took Assyrian art from being completely unknown to being the subject of many best-selling books, as well as being imitated in political cartoons.
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