Persian Persepolis Columns Abstract Art Painting Rolled Canvas Print

The item you receive is a high quality unframed canvas print of my original artwork. It can fit any standard frame of your choice. This piece is a SEMI original. After printing, I detail and enhance each piece using fresh metallic gold ink pen and fresh color ink pens. This adds depth and texture. Each piece is uniquely different. The print will also feature my discreetly placed original handwritten signature. The print will include a 2 inch white border on all 4 sides to allow for cutting it to fit a standard frame or if you choose to have it gallery wrapped.

In the Achaemenid palaces at Persepolis and Susa columns, whether plain or fluted, reached a height of 19 m and a diameter up to 1.60 m; they were topped by double-protome capitals, themselves an additional 8 m high. The two adjoined animal representations carried the ceiling or roof beams between them after. This mode of construction was emulated in the rock-cut royal tombs at Naqš-e Rostam and Persepolis and is still recognizable in the so-called “Median rock tombs,” actually of late or post-Achaemenid date, where supports in the form of free-standing columns were carved out of the rocks. (Wolfram Kleiss)