Among the great artistic objects found by chance, one must include the Ashokan Lion Capital at the Archaeological Museum of Sarnath in northern India. Several miles away, on the Ganges ...

While his revolutionary painting Liberty Leading the People might be his most recognized work, Delacroix harbored a particular fascination with wild animals, especially lions. The artist ...

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The lions, facing in four directions, represent the roaring form of Buddha ... affect us a powerful aesthetic object, as the art historian Gail Maxwell reminds us (in 2004’s “Encyclopedia ...