Hittite art

Anatolia has been a center for great civilizations since stone ages. For this reason this geographical area has been dominated by different societies and their languages.The Hittite empire was one of the great civilization ın the area who dominated the political destiny of Anatolia in between 1700-1200 B.C. Hittites created several noteworthy artistic studies during this period for example results of ex and on going excavations exhibits that several architectural ruins monumental and sculptures were produced during this time period.In these excavations several houses temples and palaces explored. Hittite architecture characteristically uses asymmetric figures instead of symmetric ones except monumental doors where symmetry is widely used.Religious buildings were the places where the religious objects protected. Initially these buildings were the natural places like caves etc. But later on these places replaced by men made buildings.This period?s architectural trend mostly concentrated on individualism. For instance they used separate walls instead of common walls used by several people. Houses mostly contain two separate rectangle rooms.Palaces are the combination of courtyards which combines several houses to each other. Courtyards has spaces for the people so that they can cross one side to the other. They paid extra attention for a well designed city.Sculpture had a special importance in their artistic perspectives. There are several god and goddess sculptures found in the excavations. These sculptures mostly made up of terracotta, gold, bronze, silver, ivory crystal. The figures which are on the monumental doors were three dimensional figuresSphinx and the lions were the main characters in these figures. Because they thought these lions can protect the city against to the enemy. Their culture influenced several sub-cultures on the other hand Egyptian and northern Syrian cultures influenced their culture as well.