Chemistry:Albani lion
From HandWiki
Short description: Roman statue
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 .[1]
The Albani lion is possibly a reproduction of an earlier Ancient Greece bronze statue, as basalt was used in the 1st century AD for reproductions of Greek bronzes.[1]
See also
- Medici lions
- Marzocco
- Cultural depictions of lions
- Chinese guardian lions
References
Literature
- Richard Delbrueck: Antike Porphyrwerke, Berlin/Leipzig 1932 (Studien zur spätantiken Kunstgeschichte 6), page 60 (in German, referenced on Google Books and uni-koeln.de)
 |  |
