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  1. Medici lions
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    History

    A pair of lions were required by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who had acquired the Villa Medici in 1576, to serve as majestic ornaments for the villa's garden staircase, the Loggia dei leoni. The first lion ori… See more

    Copies

    The original Medici lions (1598) have since 1789 stood in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della Signoria, Florence. There is a smaller bronze left-looking sculpture attributed to Italian sculptor Pietro da Barga and the same perio… See more

    Close imitations

    • Sweden: Slottslejonen (Swedish for The Palace Lions) in bronze, by Bernard Foucquet at the Royal Palace, Stockholm (1700–1704).
    • United Kingdom: Sculptures in bronze at the Queen's Gate entrance to Royal Victo… See more

    In popular culture

    Medici Lions have appeared, often downsized and sometimes anachronistically, in films including The Plague of Florence (1919), The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), It Happened in Rome (1957), … See more

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