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  2. Traditional Chinese Lions (Indianapolis Zoo) - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Chinese Lions is a public artwork located at the entrance to the Indianapolis Zoo, which is near downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The sculpture is made up of two traditional Chinese lions made of white marble, situated on white marble bases. Each lion is approximately 53 inches in height, 24.5 inches wide and 38 inches ...

  3. Medici lions - Wikipedia

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    The first lion originates from a 2nd-century [3] marble that was first mentioned in 1594, by the sculptor Flaminio Vacca, [4] by which time it was already in the collection of Ferdinando; [5] Vacca reported that it had been found in the via Prenestina, outside Porta San Lorenzo.

  4. Bridge of Lions - Wikipedia

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    A pair of copies of the marble Medici lions guard the bridge, begun in 1925 and completed in 1927. They were removed in February 2005 and returned in March 2011. Roads & Bridges magazine named the Bridge of Lions as fourth in the nation's top 10 bridges for 2010. Projects were evaluated based on size, community impact and challenges resolved.

  5. Marble sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Lorenzo Bartolini, (Italian, 1777–1850), La Table aux Amours (The Demidoff Table), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Marble sculpture. Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common geological "parent" limestone, in particular the ability to absorb light a small distance into the surface before ...

  6. Slottslejonen - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Temple ruins on uninhabited Greek island reveal 2,400-year ...

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    The marble statue was about 2,480 years old and depicted a male figure standing upright, a type of statue known as a kouros, archaeologists said. A photo shows the carved figure’s upper body and ...

  8. Lion of Knidos - Wikipedia

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    The lion is substantially complete; only the lower jaw and front legs are missing; its eyes were probably once inlaid with glass. The statue is greater than life-size; it weighs six tonnes and measures 2.89 metres long and 1.82 metres high. [1] In designing the body to be hollowed out from below, the weight of the statue was reduced. [2]

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    Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...

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