守护者狮子 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	守护者狮子
品名（英）	Guardian Lion
入馆年号	1930年，30.66.1
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元 534 - 公元 566
创作地区
分类	雕塑（Sculpture）
尺寸	高 25 3/4 英寸 (65.4 厘米); 宽 22 英寸 (55.9 厘米); 深 23 英寸 (58.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	这只凶猛的守护狮是一对中的一只，它露出獠牙，蹲下，用张开的爪子抓住下面的平台。在保护汉代陵墓（公元前206年至公元220年）的过程中，人们发现了成对的石狮。随着五世纪和六世纪中国北方佛教石窟寺将狮子图像纳入其中，石狮变得更加普遍。在北齐古墓的发掘中，出土了成对的保护狮子，用来保护棺材最里面的墓室的入口这只守护狮完全模仿的身体和波纹状的肌肉说明了北齐的雕塑，它比之前北魏（386–534）和东魏（534–550）王朝的细长和线性形式更为圆形和自然主义。狮子肩上的风格化轮纹在这一时期的浮雕和圆形雕塑中都很常见。虽然北齐王朝短暂，于577年被北周取代，但其雕塑成就为随后几个世纪的石雕提供了方向和灵感，当时中国首先在隋朝（581–618）统一，然后在唐朝（618–906）统一。
介绍（英）	One of a pair, this fierce guardian lion bares his fangs, crouches, and grips the platform underneath him with splayed claws. Pairs of stone lions have been found protecting Han-dynasty tombs (206 B.C.–220 A.D.) and they became more prevalent following the inclusion of lion iconography in Buddhist cave temples in northern China during the fifth and sixth centuries. Excavations of Northern Qi tombs have unearthed pairs of protective lions defending the entrance to the innermost chamber containing the coffin. This guardian lion's fully modeled body and rippling muscles is illustrative of Northern Qi sculpture, which was more rounded and naturalistic than the elongated and linear forms of the preceding Northern Wei (386–534) and Eastern Wei (534–550) dynasties. The stylized whorl pattern along the lion's shoulders is common on carvings in relief as well as sculptures in the round from this period. While the Northern Qi dynasty was brief and was supplanted by the Northern Zhou in 577, its sculptural achievements provided direction and inspiration for stone sculpture in the succeeding centuries when China was unified first under the Sui dynasty (581–618) and then under the Tang dynasty (618–906).