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2. Medici lions - Wikipedia

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   Medici lion has become a term for this sculptural type. [2] The Albani lion, a similar ancient sculpture, now at the Louvre. A similar Roman lion sculpture, of the 1st century AD, is known as the Albani lion, and is now in the Louvre. Here, the stone used for the ball is different from the basalt body. Both may derive from a Hellenistic ...

3. Chinese guardian lions - Wikipedia

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   Chinthe similar lion statues in Burma, Laos and Cambodia; Culture of China; Door god; Foo dog, dog breeds originating in China that resemble "Chinese guardian lions" and hence are also called Lion Dogs. Komainu to compare its use in Japanese culture; Haetae to compare with similar lion-like statues in Korea; Kanglā Shā a similar usage in ...

4. Slottslejonen - Wikipedia

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   Foucquet used as his model the Medici lions—two marble lions of antique origin, erected in 1598 at the Villa Medici in Rome, later moved to the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence. Similar lion statues already appeared at the castle in depictions from Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna in 1692.

5. Category:Sculptures of lions - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Lion of Belfort - Wikipedia

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   The lion symbolizes the heroic French resistance during the Siege of Belfort, a 103-day Prussian assault from December 1870 to February 1871. The city was successfully defended against 40,000 Prussians by merely 17,000 men (of whom only 3,500 were from the military) led by Colonel Denfert-Rochereau , with the fortress holding out until the ...

7. Albani lion - Wikipedia

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   The Albani lion is a 1st-century Roman green basalt lion statue with a yellow marble sphere under one paw, in the Albani Collection in the Denon Wing of the Louvre (inventory number Ma 1355) in Paris, France.