Medici lions

[7] The second was made and signed[8] by Vacca, also in marble, as a pendant to the ancient sculpture at a date variously reported as between 1594 and 1598[4] or between 1570 and 1590.

[9][10] The pair were in place at the Loggia dei Leoni in 1598[1] The pendant was made from a capital that had come from the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus.

[10] The Villa Medici was inherited by the house of Lorraine in 1737, and in 1787[4][11][12] the lions were moved to Florence, and since 1789[11] they flank the steps to the Loggia dei Lanzi at the Piazza della Signoria.

[12] The original Medici lions (1598) have since 1789 stood in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della Signoria, Florence.

There is a smaller bronze left-looking sculpture attributed to Italian sculptor Pietro da Barga[14] and the same period.