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Metropolitan Museum of Art. Accession No. 26.7.1453. Identifiers. The Met object ID: 544076. [ edit on Wikidata] Artist's Sketch of Pharaoh Spearing a Lion is an ostracon drawing from the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt (ca. 1186–1070 B.C., part of the Ramesside period ). It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lions are depicted on vases dating to about 2600 before present that were excavated near Lake Urmia. [5] In Iranian mythology, the lion is a symbol of courage and monarchy. It is portrayed standing beside the kings in artifacts and sitting on the graves of knights.
The small lion hunt: with two lions: About 1629 B116: 1: The small lion hunt: with one lion: About 1629 B149: 1: St. Paul in meditation: About 1629 B153: 5: The blindness of Tobit: a sketch: About 1629 B162: 1: Beggar in a high cap, standing and leaning on a stick: About 1629 B166: 5: Beggar with a crippled hand leaning on a stick: About 1629 ...
The Assyrian lion weights are a group of bronze statues of lions, discovered in archaeological excavations in or adjacent to ancient Assyria. The first published, and the most notable, are a group of sixteen bronze Mesopotamian weights found at Nimrud in the late 1840s and now in the British Museum . [ 1 ]
The Nazca used this technique to "draw" several hundred simple, but huge, curvilinear animal and human figures. In total, the earthwork project is huge and complex: the area encompassing the lines is nearly 450 km 2 (170 sq mi), and the largest figures can span nearly 370 m (1,200 ft). [6]
Villard de Honnecourt. Villard de Honnecourt (Wilars dehonecort, Vilars de Honecourt) was a 13th-century artist from Picardy in northern France. He is known to history only through a surviving portfolio or "sketchbook" containing about 250 drawings and designs of a wide variety of subjects.
The work was attributed to Dürer in 1957, [1] based on the resemblance between the lion and a similar animal on a membrane drawing from the artist's second trip to Venice, now at the Hamburger Kunsthalle. The lion was almost surely drawn from St. Mark's Lion depictions in the city.
Bison and lions live in open plains areas; aurochs, deer and bears are associated with forests and marshes; ibex habitat is rocky areas, and horses are highly adaptive for all these areas. The Lascaux paintings' disposition may be explained by a belief in the real life of the pictured species, wherein the artists tried to respect their real ...