The Medici & Vacca lions Pair Free Standing White marble obelisk playing hide and seek

playing hide and seek

The marble statue represents the goddess as she descends from the skies to the triumphant Armies

A Marble heart with three table lights

he has already done so

it was among the most admired and copied works of antiquity in the eighteenth century

The Medici & Vacca lions Pair Free Standing White marble obelisk playing hide and seekThe Medici & Vacca lions pair, Italian, 1801. An exact miniaturised version of the original marble sculptures, by Sculptured Arts Studio, set upon a base. The Lions guarded the steps to the Villa Medici, Italy. The first lion is an ancient Roman sculpture (2nd century AD), while the second was sculpted by Flaminio Vacca in 15901598, commissioned by Ferdinando I de' Medici as a match. The pair were then moved to their present location at Loggia Dei