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In 1978, the Lion Shrine was vandalized when a blunt object was used to break off the statue's right ear. The original sculptor, Heinz Warneke, was alive at the time and, with some difficulty, was able to match the stone and repair the damaged ear. This incident led to the site being guarded during home football games. [5]
More images: Large Hand of a Pianist [40] 1885 Bronze Musée Rodin, Paris More images: Ixelles Idyll [41] 1885 Bronze Musée Rodin, Paris More images: Woman and Child [42] 1885 Marble National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 43.2 x 44.4 x 33.1 More images: Paolo and Francesca: 1885 Bronze Kunsthaus Zürich More images: The Weeping Burgher ...
The sculptures in the Schönbrunn Garden at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria were created between 1773 and 1780 under the direction of Johann Wilhelm Beyer, a German artist and garden designer. The Great Parterre of Schönbrunn Garden is lined on both sides with 32 over life-size sculptures that represent mythological deities and virtues.
Slottslejonen ("The Castle Lions") are two bronze sculptures of lions that stand on Lejonbacken ("the Lion Slope") below the northern facade of Stockholm Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. The lions are not completely identical or merely mirror images: they have their heads turned east and west respectively (i.e., away from each other) and both gaze ...
Lion de la Feuillée (Montreal) Lion Fountain (Floriana) Lion Gate; Lion Monument; Lion of Al-lāt; Lion of Amphipolis; Lion of Babylon (statue) Lion of Belfort; Lion of Belfort (Montreal) Lion of Bienservida; Lion of Knidos; Lion of Mari; Lion with a Snake; Lion's Head (Benguet) Lion's Mound; Lions at the Dvortsovaya pier; Löwe (sculpture ...
"Winged genie", Nimrud c. 870 BC, with inscription running across his midriff. Part of the Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal, c. 645–635 BC. Assyrian sculpture is the sculpture of the ancient Assyrian states, especially the Neo-Assyrian Empire of 911 to 612 BC, which was centered around the city of Assur in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) which at its height, ruled over all of Mesopotamia, the Levant ...
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The Maiwand Lion is a sculpture and war memorial in the Forbury Gardens, a public park in the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire.The statue was named after the Battle of Maiwand and was unveiled in December 1886 to commemorate the deaths of 329 men from the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot during the campaign in the Second Anglo-Afghan War in Afghanistan between 1878 and 1880.