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Fancelli's ancient lion Vacca's lion. The Medici lions are a pair of marble sculptures of lions: one of which is Roman, dating to the 2nd century AD, and the other a 16th-century pendant. By 1598 both were placed at the Villa Medici, Rome. [1] Since 1789 they have been displayed at the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence. The sculptures depict ...
The lion was sculpted in Coade stone by William F. Woodington in 1837 and paired with the "South Bank Lion" at the Lion Brewery on the Lambeth bank of the River Thames. It is now located above the central pillar of the Rowland Hill Memorial Gate (Gate 3) at Twickenham Stadium .
Lev is a common Slavic name meaning "lion". The Latin name for Lviv is Leopolis, meaning "Lion City". The name of the city of Oran in Algeria is derived from the Berber root 'HR meaning lion, from which are also derived the names of Tahert and Souk Ahras. The name is attested in multiple Berber languages, for instance as uharu and ahra. A ...
A pair of komainu, the "a" on the right, the "um" on the left. Komainu (狛犬), often called lion-dogs in English, are statue pairs of lion-like creatures, which traditionally guard the entrance or gate of the shrine, or placed in front of or within the honden (inner sanctum) of Japanese Shinto shrines.
Two pairs of lion sculpture are installed at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. The original statues were created by Gavin Jack with cement in 1915, and repaired by Ralphael Plescia in 1977. Replacements were sculpture by Nick Fairplay with Italian marble. The sculpture are known as Fortitude, Honor, Integrity, and Patience. [1]
Lions is a pair of 1893 bronze sculptures by Edward Kemeys, installed outside of the main entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. The sculptures are well-recognized public artworks. The sculptures were commissioned by Florence Lathrop Field as a gift to the museum in memory of her late husband Henry Field.
The Prudhoe Lions, or Soleb Lions, [1] are a pair of Ancient Egyptian red granite monumental sculptures dating from the 18th Dynasty, c. 1370 BC. They are now presented in the British Museum . [ 2 ] The lions originally stood as guardian figures at the Temple of Soleb in Nubia , which was built by the 18th Dynasty King Amenhotep III .
Pairs of guardian lion statues are still common and symbolic elements at the entrances to restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and other structures, with one sitting on each side of the entrance, in China and in other places around the world where the Chinese people have immigrated and settled, especially in local Chinatowns. [citation needed]