Albani lion

Short description: Roman statue

The Albani lion

The Albani lion is a 1st-century Roman green basalt lion statue with a yellow marble sphere under one paw, in the Albani Collection in the Denon Wing of the Louvre (inventory number Ma 1355) in Paris, France .[1]

The Albani lion is possibly a reproduction of an earlier Ancient Greece bronze statue, as basalt was used in the 1st century AD for reproductions of Greek bronzes.[1]

## See also

* Medici lions
* Marzocco
* Cultural depictions of lions
* Chinese guardian lions

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 louvre.fr (in French)

## Literature

* Richard Delbrueck: Antike Porphyrwerke, Berlin/Leipzig 1932 (Studien zur spätantiken Kunstgeschichte 6), page 60 (in German, referenced on Google Books and uni-koeln.de)

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