Lion Attacking a Horse

model: 1580-1589; cast: early 18th century H: 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm) Citation Source image

A damaged but expressive Hellenistic marble sculpture of a "Lion Attacking a Horse" in Rome (now in the garden of the Palazzo dei Conservatori) offered a challenge to artists to figure out how it originally looked. The group was restored in 1594.Giambologna, the sculptor of F...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [1900 suppl. cat. no. 98] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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