Medici lions
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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
Fancelli's ancient lion
Vacca's lion
The Albani lion, a similar ancient sculpture, now at the Louvre
The original Medici lions at the Villa Medici (Giovanni Francesco Venturini 1691)
Piazza della Signoria
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Piazza della Signoria is a W-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Central Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio. It is the main point
Medici lions
…by the house of Lorraine in 1737, and in 1787 the lions were moved to Florence, and since 1789 they flank the steps to the Loggia dei Lanzi at the Piazza della Signoria. The sculptures were replaced by copies at the Villa Medici when Napoleon relocated the French Academy in Rome to the villa in 1803. These copies were…
Piazza Signoria Firenze
Palazzo Vecchio
Painting of Savonarola's execution in the Piazza della Signoria
Giuseppe Zocchi, The Piazza della Signoria in Florence, first half 18th ct.