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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.
Augustine of Hippo, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. The Saint Augustine Altarpiece was a mixed-technique 1454–1469 panel altarpiece by Piero della Francesca, now split up and dispersed. It is thought that it contained thirty panels, of which only eight are known to survive, divided between five museums in four countries.
The controversy on the authenticity of the bones resulted in broadsides, pamphlets and books. In 1728, Pope Benedict XIII's intervention in Pavia resulted in his approval of the authenticity of Augustine's bones discovered in the church of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro. (Stone, Harold Samuel (2002). "St. Augustine's Bones: A Microhistory." pp. 90–93)
The Constellation of Leo (Italian: La costellazione del leone) is a painting made by Carlo Maria Mariani in 1980–1981. It is a group portrait of prominent people from Italy's art world at the time, including Mariani himself, and has the subtitle The School of Rome (Italian: La scuola di Roma). It contains visual references to ancient ...
The Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus of the Philippines (Spanish: Provincia Agustiniana del Santísimo Nombre de Jesús de Filipinas) was a geographical and administrative subdivision of the religious Order of St. Augustine that was formally affiliated to the Order on March 7, 1575, to originally cater the needs of the growing Augustinian presence in Philippines who were serving ...
Saint Augustine (Pinturicchio) Saint Augustine Altarpiece (Huguet) Saint Augustine and Alypius Receiving Ponticianus; Saint Augustine in His Study (Botticelli, Ognissanti) Saint Augustine in His Study (Botticelli, Uffizi) St. Augustine in His Study (Carpaccio) Saint Augustine's Vision of the Christ-Child by a River; San Pietro di Muralto Altarpiece
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.