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Object type sculpture
object_type QS:P31,Q860861
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This crouching lion with its head turned to the left originally afforded symbolic protection to a grave in Athens or its territory. The lion's face and mane are stylized, and its body is rather doglike. The small incisions all over the body indicate fur. This unrealistic rendering of lions is typical of Greek artists, who would never have seen a real lion and thus modeled their depictions on a combination of artistic tradition, large dogs, and house cats. In antiquity, walled family burial plots lined the roads out of Athens. Sculpted lions such as this one, placed at the corners of the plot, were especially popular in the 300s B.C. Funerary sculptures had a dual purpose: they protected the tombs and served to display the wealth and prestige of the family. The ostentation of these displays led to an Athenian law of 317 B.C. that banned all but the simplest of grave markers.

— J. Paul Getty Museum / CC-BY-4.0 , in:  http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/6503/
Date circa 350 BC
Medium marble
medium QS:P186,Q40861
Dimensions 36.7 × 20.3 × 92.1 cm (14.4 × 7.9 × 36.2 in)
institution QS:P195,Q180401
Current location
room 201B (Funerary Sculpture)
Accession number
57.AA.11
Place of creation Attica
Object history 1957: purchased by J. Paul Getty Museum from Nicolas Koutoulakis, Geneva
References
  • (Winter 1957). "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums". Art Quarterly 20: 469.
  • Stothart, Herbert (1957). "Two Attic Funerary Lions of the 4th Century". Bulletin of the J. Paul Getty Museum of Art: 18-21.
  • Getty, J. Paul (1965) The Joys of Collecting, Category:New York: Hawthorn Books, pp. 54−55
  • Vermeule, Cornelius C. (1968). "Appendix: Lions, Attic and Related". American Journal of Archaeology 72: 99-101.
  • Vermeule, Cornelius C.; Neuerberg, Norman (1973) Catalogue of the Ancient Art in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, no. 15 , p. 9
  • Frel, Jirí (May 1979) Antiquities in the J. Paul Getty Museum. A Checklist. Sculpture I. Greek Originals., Malibu, no. 61 , p. 15
  • Grossman, Janet Burnett (2001) Greek Funerary Sculpture. Catalogue of the Collections at the Getty Villa, Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, no. 30 , pp. 84−85
  • Getty Center

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