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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 ...
Lion de la Feuillée (Montreal) Lion Fountain (Floriana) Lion Gate; Lion Monument; Lion of Al-lāt; Lion of Amphipolis; Lion of Babylon (statue) Lion of Belfort; Lion of Belfort (Montreal) Lion of Bienservida; Lion of Knidos; Lion of Mari; Lion with a Snake; Lion's Head (Benguet) Lion's Mound; Lions at the Dvortsovaya pier; Löwe (sculpture ...
Brunswick and the Brunswick Lion on the Ebstorf Map (around 1300) [1]. The medieval chronicler Abbot Albert of Stade mentioned "1166" as the year of origin. Nevertheless, according to recent research, the monument was created between 1164 and 1176, at the time when the Welf duke Henry the Lion (1129/31–1195), ruler of both Saxony and Bavaria, took his residence at Braunschweig.
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.
- The lion from the roof of the brewery, now known as the "South Bank Lion", was moved to Station Approach Waterloo, placed on a high plinth, and painted red as the symbol of British Rail. When removed, the initials of the sculptor William F. Woodington and the date, 24 May 1837, were discovered under one of its paws. [ 4 ]
The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. [1] Facing directly from west to east, it stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt. The face of the Sphinx appears to represent the pharaoh Khafre. [2]
The thrones of Buddha and Boddhisattva found in Kalasan and Mendut buddhist temples of ancient Java depicted elephant, lion, and makara. The statue of a winged lion also is found in Penataran temple East Java, as well as in Balinese temples. The Balinese winged lion often served as the guardian statue or as the pedestal of wooden column ...
The South Bank Lion is an 1837 sculpture in Central London.Since 1966 it has stood next to County Hall, on the South Bank of the River Thames.It is a significant depiction of a lion, along with the four that surround Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square just across the river.