The Lion of Venice is an ancient bronze winged lion sculpture 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.
Venice Decoded: Top 3 Lion Statues June marked my 3 year anniversary since I first met and became infatuated with Venice and its history. I traveled there in 2010 to study art history and in particular the Reniassance of Venice and the Veneto region.
Depictions of St. Mark's lion can be found everywhere in Venice. There is a famous lion on the clocktower in the Piazza San Marco, a lion atop a column in the piazzetta outside the Palazzo Ducale, and lions everywhere throughout Venice in paintings and carved into marble on almost every building.
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world famous Venice lion close up Trompe L'oeil style sculpture of a lion in an archway. Historic sculpture on the facade of the Scuola di San Marco which is now the main hospital in Venice, Italy.
Venice, Italy Piraeus Lion ... The Piraeus Lion was famous in ancient times; it originally guarded the port of Athens. ... The statue is on the left side of the door at the entrance of the Arsenal ...
Depictions of St. Mark's winged lion can be found everywhere in Venice: there is a famous lion on the clock tower in the Piazza San Marco, a lion atop a column in outside the Palazzo Ducale, and other representations everywhere throughout the city.
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Statues have been created by man since the prehistory for all kinds of reasons and in all sizes. One of the first statues, a 29.6 cm (11.7 inches) high sculpture called the Lion Man, was created almost 32,000 years ago.
This is a list of the most famous statues worldwide, past and present that already have articles about them in Wikipedia or are referred to or pictured in other articles.
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