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Ancient Greek lion statue at the Arsenal, Venice. The Piraeus Lion (Italian: Leone del Pireo) is one of four lion statues on display at the Venetian Arsenal, Italy, where it was displayed as a symbol of Venice's patron saint, Saint Mark. The statue is made of white marble and stands some 3 m (9 ft.) high.
English: Detail from the statue of the "Piraeus Athena" in the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus (Athens). The work has been given to either Kephisodotos or Euphranor (4th century B.C.), or deemed to be a Hellenistic-era creation in classicizing style. Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto, November 14 2009.
The Lion in the 1870s. The Lion seen from ground level in 2017. The Lion seen from the Doge's Palace.. The Lion of Venice is an ancient bronze sculpture of a winged lion in the Piazza San Marco of Venice, Italy, which came to symbolize the city—as well as one of its patron saints, St Mark—after its arrival there in the 12th century.
The equestrian statue of Louis XIV is a monument erected in 1828 in the center of the Promenade du Peyrou in Montpellier, Hérault.Classified as a monument historique in 1954, on a site itself classified in 1943, [1] this bronze statue is the second representation of King Louis XIV in this city, as a previous version was destroyed during the French Revolution.
The statue of Daniel was placed in the niche to left of the entrance. On 26 June 1657 Bernini received 1000 scudi for the figure of Daniel which was then already in its place. [ 1 ] The surviving preparatory drawings (four studies in the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig ) prove that the inspiration for the statue was provided by the ...
India: Fitzgerald Bridge statue in Pune, India (1866). Spain: The Leones del Congreso: Daoiz y Velarde in bronze at the Congress of Deputies, Madrid, Cast in 1865, installed 1872. [46] Finland: Parolan Leijona (Finnish for The Lion of Parola) on a four-meter-high (13 ft) pedestal in Hattula.
The Torre del Marzocco in Livorno. In the subjected territory of Pisa, when Charles VIII of France entered Sarzana in 1494, the Pisans took the Marzocco, emblem of their subjugation to Florence, and cast it into the Arno. [11] Live lions were kept at the commune's expense from the Middle Ages until they were banished in 1771.
Leone Leoni (c. 1509 – 22 July 1590) was an Italian sculptor of international outlook who travelled in Italy, Germany, Austria, France, Spain and the Netherlands. Leoni is regarded as the finest of the Cinquecento medallists . [ 1 ]