Venice’s famous bronze statue of a winged lion, which stands atop a pedestal in St. Mark’s Square, took an intercontinental trip to Italy. This symbol of medieval Venetian statehood started out as a ...

The Lion of St. Mark stands on a column in the Piazzetta by St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy. - Probst\ullstein bild/Getty Images To visitors, Venice is a glorious tapestry of historic buildings, ...

New chemical evidence claims that Venice’s winged lion could be Chinese... And that it's not a lion but an altered Chinese tomb gardian known as a 'zhènmùshòu'. What? The Lion of Venice, an ancient ...

A replica of the “Nike of Samothrace” – the class of 1892’s gift for the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library’s grand opening in 1913 – was announced nearly 100 years ago in The Lantern, and while ...

A new study of the trace amounts of lead in Venice's famous winged lion statue suggests that its metal originated in China — and Marco Polo's family may have brought it over. When you purchase through ...

A mystery that has puzzled historians for centuries has finally been unraveled. The bronze winged lion statue that has stood at the heart of Venice's Piazza San Marco for hundreds of years is not of ...

To visitors, Venice is a glorious tapestry of historic buildings, waterways, bell towers, red roofs — and a mighty winged lion, the symbol of the Venetian republic, carved into structures across the ...