Why The Ishtar Gate

During King Nebuchadnezzar II's reign in 630 B.C. to 561 B.C., he ordered the construction of The Ishtar Gate, one of eight gateways into Babylon, a city in what we now call Iraq. The gate's name comes from Ishtar, the goddess of love and war. Years later, during 1899 to 1917, Robert Koldewey and his team, excavated the Ishtar Gate. The Ishtar gate was reconstructed in the 1930s, and currently resides at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The Ishtar Gate stood 46ft high, and 100ft wide; built mainly of blue varnished bricks.
The Ishtar gate features intimidating patterns of carved dragons and aurochs, and along its bottom and edges, lay beautiful patterns of painted flowers, with white petals.
Along the Ishtar Gate spread patterns of carved dragons and aurochs, colored in yellow, and hints of blue; along the lowest part of the gate is lined painted flowers. Blue colored bricks take up the majority of space; however, this helps aid a sense of unity throughout the gate. Value and the illusion of a three-dimensional space is not an important part of this artwork; because the gate is three-dimensional, so its values and dimensions are being projected naturally.
Variety in color, shapes, and texture are scarce; however, to an extent it helps build an overall unity between each