{"id":2735,"date":"2019-10-29T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/collezioni\/liion-holding-coat-of-arms\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:08:28","slug":"liion-holding-coat-of-arms","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/collections\/liion-holding-coat-of-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion holding coat of arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">LION HOLDING COAT OF ARMS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">sculpted walnut wood, traces of colouring<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The splendid 16th-century wooden sculpture depicts an imposing couchant lion with its jaws open and snarling. Between its forepaws, it firmly grips a cartoccio shield adorned with a heraldic motif of significant historical interest: above the capital letters \u201cP\u201d and \u201cB\u201d sits a cardinal\u2019s hat, an element suggesting an original connection to a high-ranking ecclesiastical figure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The lion is portrayed in a crouched position, its forepaws supporting the shield and its claws sharply defined. Elegant acanthus leaves are arranged across the animal\u2019s back, carved with great finesse; they unfold like a decorative mantle, perhaps originally supporting an architectural element such as a small column. Despite the passage of time, the work bears witness to the skill of 15th-century Venetian sculptors and the richness of the heraldic and ecclesiastical traditions of the era.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Veneto, late 16th century<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">cm 63&#215;80<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7094,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"portfolio-types":[49],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/2735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-types?post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}