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The Lion of Venice is an ancient bronze sculpture of a winged lion 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.
The Lion of Saint Mark, representing Mark the Evangelist, pictured in the form of a winged lion, is an aspect of the Tetramorph. On the pinnacle of St Mark's Cathedral he is depicted as holding a Bible, and surmounting a golden lion which is the symbol of the city of Venice and formerly of the Venetian Republic.
16 wrz 2024 · A new study has revealed that the iconic bronze-winged lion in St. Mark’s Square, Venice, may have originated in 8th-century China. Lion of Venice, Piazzetta San Marco. Credit: Didier Descouens ( CC BY-SA 4.0 )
25 wrz 2024 · It has been definitively established that the Lion towering in St. Mark's Square in Venice is actually a Chinese monster. Here is how the discovery was made, and what it entails.
4 dni temu · The Venetian Lion, a symbol of Venice, appears throughout the city. The lion represents St. Mark, Venice's patron saint. This connection comes from Christian iconography, where Mark is linked to a lion. In 828, the Venetians brought the saint's relics to Venice, adopting him as their patron. The mos
29 wrz 2024 · Statues and paintings representing St Mark’s winged lion will surround you pretty much when you visit Venice. Switching from a religious connotation linked to the Evangelist St Mark to the political representation of the Doge’s Republic of Venice, the winged lion is a constant presence.
12 wrz 2024 · In short, it’s an 8th-century Chinese bronze sculpture that arrived in Venice, was transformed, dismembered (“thanks” to Napoleon), repositioned, and studied over time, yet remains an enigma. Stylistic studies supporting the Chinese origin — Tang Dynasty —are solid, surpassing the older hypothesis of a Hellenistic statue from Anatolia.
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