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Chinese guardian lions - Wikipedia

Chinese guardian lions or Imperial guardian lions, often miscalled "Foo Dogs" in the West, are a common representation of the lion in imperial China.Chinese guardian lions are sometimes referred to in English as shishi, from the Chinese shí shī (Chinese: 石獅; pinyin: shíshī; literally: "stone lion"), which refers specifically to lion ...

Merlion - Wikipedia

These five Merlions in Singapore are the only ones recognised by the STB: The 8.6-metre-tall original statue at Merlion Park; The smaller two-metre-tall statue standing behind the original statue, weighed 3 ton and was commonly referred to as the “Merlion cub”.

Living Statue - TV Tropes

Ghostbusters. Zuul in the first film.; Followed by the Statue of Liberty being animated in order to break Vigo's slime barrier around the museum in Ghostbusters II.; The plot of the film The Forbidden Kingdom involves freeing The Monkey King, who was turned to stone nearly 500 years ago.

Large Bronze Age standing stone found in Switzerland | Daily ...

Archaeologists have found a large standing stone in Switzerland that may have once been a place of worship for a Bronze Age settlement. The stone is thought to be a menhir, a type of sacred upright stone erected by prehistoric humans.

All Recently Sold Sculpture - ArtParkS Sculpture Park ...

Egret on Alert (Standing Water Bird Wader sculpture) Sculptor: Kenneth Potts Size: 60 x 40 x 30 cm (height x width x depth) Medium: Aluminium Tube and Sheeting

Stonehenge builders 'used ball bearings to move giant slabs ...

Stonehenge builders 'used ball bearings to move giant slabs of stone into position' By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 07:32 EDT, 19 November 2010

Venus figures from the Stone Age - Paleolithic

Venus figures, paintings, carvings or engravings which are or may be male. The phallus is represented in stone age art, although it is not as common a theme for sculpture and engraving as the vulva.

Glossary of Asian Art - art and archaeology

A disciplined process, pioneered by Dutch archaeologists in the early 20th century, of rebuilding the ruined stone and brick temples of India and Southeast Asia.

Mroczek Brothers Auctioneers - Prior Auctions

Friday June 22, Fine Western Art & Native Americana - Session Two. From the private art collection of M. Lamont Bean (1924-2004), of Washington State.

Tanuki - Japanese Trickster & Spook, Originally Evil, Now ...

36 pages. This annotated narrative is based on extant Tanuki art (175 photos herein). It describes, both chronologically and thematically, the metamorphosis of the spook-beast Tanuki from a bad guy to good guy, from feared to beloved.