Cultural Depictions of Lions - in Art

In Art

  • Monumental Lion guarding Britannia Bridge, Wales

  • The Medici lion of ancient origin

  • Lion door handle at Burg Hohenzollern

  • The Lion Monument in Lucerne, Switzerland, commemorates the sacrifice of the Swiss Guards at the Tuileries in 1792.

  • The Lion of Judah being used in the logo of a Jesuit school.

  • Lion sculpture at the Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Sofia, Bulgaria.

  • Lions at the Lavov Most (Lions' Bridge) in Sofia, Bulgaria.

  • Löwe by German painter Albrecht Dürer, 1494.

  • An extinct Cape Lion (Panthera leo melanochaitus) in a drawing by the Dutch artist Rembrandt.

  • A Hyrcanian Achaemenid golden cup. Dated first half of first millennium. Excavated at Kalardasht in Mazandaran, Iran.

  • Parthian cataphract fighting a lion (in the British Museum)

  • Lion monument commemorting the Battle of Waterloo

  • Samson and the lions, Saint Trophime Church Portal (12th century)

  • One of the four lions guarding Nelson's Column on Trafalgar Square, London

  • A lion at the side of King Alfonso IX of Leon, from the Tumbo A cartulary of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

  • Michael the Brave's heraldic symbols from 1600 included two rampant lions, supporting the trunk of a tree, as a symbol of the reunited Dacia

  • Winged sphinx with body of lion from the palace of Darius the Great at Susa

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