«Гигиена» на Яндекс.Фотках
Maybe you are right because you have a TV, visit zoos and see lions relatively often. Sometimes the artists have to paint or make a sculpture of something or somebody that he/she had nevewr seen before. On my next photo is the entrance in the Dom of Salerno.
There are a lion and a lioness symbolizing the power and the love of the church. A medieval sculptor had never seen a lioness. So, the lioness for the door has a mane. And maybe it's the only lioness with the mane in the world!
4 comments:
I see there are lions at the door. Traditionally, Chinese like to put statues of lions at the door, too.
It would be interesting to confront the symbolism of these statues in the anticue times and today. In Italy there are persons that like to put them near the doors too. But I think it's not the same sense as in Middle Ages.
going to steal one of your photo here for a coming post at http://dragondescendants.blogspot.com!
It's a honour for me.
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