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Pisa Griffin - Video 4 - The Pisa Griffin: Studying art in 3D
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Cultural object · Europeana
VIDEO- Medium
- Movie
- Year
- 1001
- Place
- iid:9489/SP.1
- Country
- Italy
- Provider
- Institute of Information Science and Technologies 'Alessandro Faedo'
- Collection
- 2048702_Ag_EU_3D_ICONS_ISTI
Video 4 in a series of four divulgative videos (targeted at museum visitors), describing the Pisa Griffin The Pisa Griffin is a bronze sculpture of a griffin, located in Pisa (Italy) since the Middle Ages, even though originally is a product of Mediterranean Islamic workshops. It is the largest medieval Islamic metal sculpture known, over 1 meter tall, and was probably crafted in the 11th century in Islamic Spain. It is one of the most famous example of a tradition of zoomorphic bronzes in Islam
Bronze statue
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