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A pair of lions were required by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who had acquired the Villa Medici in 1576, to serve as majestic ornaments for the villa's garden staircase, the Loggia dei leoni. The first lion originates from a 2nd-century [3] marble that was first mentioned in 1594, by the sculptor Flaminio Vacca, [4] by which ...
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, in the Loggia dei Lanzi by Cellini (1554) Medici lions, by Fancelli and Vacca (1598) The piazza was already a central square in the original Roman town Florentia, surrounded by a theatre, Roman baths and a workshop for dyeing textiles. Later there was a church San Romolo, a loggia and an enormous 5th-century ...
The lions were created by the French sculptor Bernard Foucquet the Elder, who worked on sculptural projects for Stockholm Palace during the years 1696–1706 and 1707–1711. [2] Foucquet used as his model the Medici lions—two marble lions of antique origin, erected in 1598 at the Villa Medici in Rome, later moved to the Loggia dei Lanzi in ...
Piazza della Loggia depicted in a wooden inlay, preserved in the choir of the church of Santi Bartolomeo e Stefano in Bergamo. An early development of Piazza della Loggia was thus promoted on the basis of these premises. The work, not surprisingly, was encouraged by the Venetian podestà Marco Foscari, brother of the then Doge Francesco.
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It has gargoyles, a tower, a gated entry adorned with stone lion heads and an actual sword sticking out of a vine-covered mound. Unlikely Merlin was involved in putting it there or that King ...
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The lion stood at the heart of the city in the Piazza della Signoria at the end of the platform attached to the Palazzo Vecchio called the ringhiera, from which speakers traditionally harangued the crowd. This is now lost, having weathered with time to an unrecognizable mass of stone. The best known rendition is by Donatello, made in 1418–20.