Muscles, power and the senses in the Assurnasirpal II’s Palace Reliefs (IX BCE)
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2024.200464Keywords:
Assyria, First millennium BCE, Palace reliefs, BodyAbstract
In this article, we examine the representation of muscular figures in the parietal reliefs of the Ashurnasirpal II’s (883-859 BCE) palace in the light of recent research on the subject. We argue that the muscular traits tend to enhance, as a representation, the masculine and warrior aspects of the figures, as well as extrapolate the visuality to affect, sensorially, the observers. Thus, the muscles work as representation, but the formal attribute of the message affects beyond the visual, or, using a neuroscience perspective, it is a bodily resonance of an embodied simulation.
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