Any of you guys good at recognizing statues

[FiLtH]

Try Twin Lions of Palermo

[Masherbrum]

Try Twin Lions of Palermo

outside of the Palermo Theater?   Never thought about that.   That is correct, looking at the pictures.   Well done Filth.

Edit.   The ONLY thing bothering me is the smaller pedestal in the WWII photo.

[mtnman]

outside of the Palermo Theater?   Never thought about that.   That is correct, looking at the pictures.   Well done Filth.

Edit.   The ONLY thing bothering me is the smaller pedestal in the WWII photo.

There are other differences too. 

The base of the tail is different, the mane is different, and the lion in the OP's post is on a base that angles "downhill", while the one's at Palermo are going "uphill".  The dirt "base" in the OP's photo is also "flat" while the ones at Palermo have more contour.

In the OP's photo, is the "person" on the lions back part of the statue?  Or is it another soldier?

[1pLUs44]

I can't tell you. I only have this picture and another picture of him taken shortly after Anzio.

[Traveler]

  I did a vacation tour in London about 15 years ago and I thought I remember seeing that  statue outside of one of the official buildings from the WWII War ministry .  You could take a tour of the Churchill bunker .    Did your grandfather stage in England?

[Noir]

this looks like bronze doesn't it

[Noir]

Difficult find, the lion is such a widespread symbol in europe it is difficult to track down where it is. I visited grenoble with google street and other websites, couldn't find any lion. It's definitely not the Alexandre III bridge.

La Luna could be the artist name, or just a random degradation. The background tells me it could definitely be in france, or italy.

[zack1234]

Or the UK

[Noir]

I was searching luna, found a funny picture 

[cpxxx]

Had some fun googling for lion statues. I doubt it's the UK. That is somewhere hot by the look of it and he's not dressed like any GI on a visit to London would be. He's wearing fatigues.

The lions at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo are very similar but the background is wrong. So it could be Italy. But where? I wonder did he make it to Rome?

[zack1234]

yes it looks hot +1

This is the best thread at present

I think its probly Italy of France

[VonMessa]

There are other differences too. 

The base of the tail is different, the mane is different, and the lion in the OP's post is on a base that angles "downhill", while the one's at Palermo are going "uphill".  The dirt "base" in the OP's photo is also "flat" while the ones at Palermo have more contour.

In the OP's photo, is the "person" on the lions back part of the statue?  Or is it another soldier?

He said twin lions

Teatro Massimo has two statues.  They are not identical but they both have a female rider 

[RTHolmes]

if you google image search, there are hardly any lions with a woman riding them. women and lions in mythology doesnt ring any bells for me apart from maybe Ariadne.

[megadud]

columbia lion statue? that is a tough find. I looked for an entire 10 minutes and can't find it. 

[Noir]

I did a search for that statue in French, could find a single lion being ridden. If someone writes Italian maybe he can search...