Hi everyone and welcome back to Exploring Art, this is Alessandro and today we are going to discover one of the most important articafts of the Sumerian art: the Stele of the Vultures.
Don't get tricked by the pose and his kind of funny proportions because this guy here was an important Sumerian King. His name was Gudea and he was the ruler of the city-state of Lagash in Mesopotamia.
Sumerians were a very ancient and advanced population and they left amazing buildings like The Ziggurat of Ur (or Great Ziggurat of Ur)
Hi everyone! Today we are going to start a new series about one of the most ancient art styles: Sumerian.