How the dizzying repetition of these Assyrian reliefs gives them hyperreality

"That infinite image creates an endless echoing, which is almost dizzying and supernatural."

Curator Kim Benzel on an Assyrian relief panel.

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Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world. Each episode is interpreted by a Museum photographer.

Photography by Bruce J. Schwarz

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