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  2. Traditional Chinese Lions (Indianapolis Zoo) - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Chinese Lions is a public artwork located at the entrance to the Indianapolis Zoo, which is near downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The sculpture is made up of two traditional Chinese lions made of white marble, situated on white marble bases. Each lion is approximately 53 inches in height, 24.5 inches wide and 38 inches ...

  3. Medici lions - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  4. Bridge of Lions - Wikipedia

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    A pair of copies of the marble Medici lions guard the bridge, begun in 1925 and completed in 1927. They were removed in February 2005 and returned in March 2011. Roads & Bridges magazine named the Bridge of Lions as fourth in the nation's top 10 bridges for 2010. Projects were evaluated based on size, community impact and challenges resolved.

  5. Lion of Knidos - Wikipedia

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    The lion is substantially complete; only the lower jaw and front legs are missing; its eyes were probably once inlaid with glass. The statue is greater than life-size; it weighs six tonnes and measures 2.89 metres long and 1.82 metres high. [1] In designing the body to be hollowed out from below, the weight of the statue was reduced. [2]

  6. Marble sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Lorenzo Bartolini, (Italian, 1777–1850), La Table aux Amours (The Demidoff Table), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Marble sculpture. Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common geological "parent" limestone, in particular the ability to absorb light a small distance into the surface before ...

  7. Temple ruins on uninhabited Greek island reveal 2,400-year ...

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    The marble statue was about 2,480 years old and depicted a male figure standing upright, a type of statue known as a kouros, archaeologists said. A photo shows the carved figure’s upper body and ...

  8. 21 Vintage Photos of Christmas Window Displays From the Last ...

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    Perfumes, Santa Claus statues and other holiday trinkets crowd a Woolworth's window display in 1947. Wisconsin Historical Society - Getty Images H.S. Manchester Inc: 1947

  9. Canova Lions - Wikipedia

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    The Canova Lions, located in front of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., are copies of a pair of lions sculpted by Antonio Canova in 1792 for the tomb of Pope Clement XIII [1] in St Peter's in Rome.

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