{"id":2888,"date":"2019-09-10T16:54:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/collezioni\/pair-of-lions-2\/"},"modified":"2023-09-26T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T09:21:18","slug":"pair-of-lions-2","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/collections\/pair-of-lions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair of lions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">16TH CENTURY FLORENTINE SCULPTOR<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Pair of lions<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">marble, cm 66 height<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">Arrived to us in fragmentary conditions, these two fascinating sculptures depict two lions that likely used to stand on their front paws. The animals\u2019 snouts are facing their side, and the big felines were meant to be placed opposite each other, probably guarding the entrance of an important building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">The exquisite craftsmanship of these marble artifacts, as can be seen in the differentiation between their expressions, in the efficacy of the result, in the splendid, almost pictorial, execution of their flowing manes, allow us to attribute these works to a greatly talented sculptor, active in the first half of the sixteenth century, most likely in Florence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\">Since remote times, the ancient republic almost venerated this noble animal, choosing it as the symbol of the city under the name Marzocco.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"cjzaxGEFqu\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/collections\/pair-of-lions\/\">Pair of lions<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Pair of lions&#8221; &#8212; Tornabuoni Arte\" src=\"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/collections\/pair-of-lions\/embed\/#?secret=TjLDnub9mg#?secret=cjzaxGEFqu\" data-secret=\"cjzaxGEFqu\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1235,"menu_order":0,"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\/2888"}],"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=2888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-types?post=2888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}