Swiss Guard Tribute is a photograph by Lin Grosvenor which was uploaded on September 5th, 2012.
Swiss Guard Tribute
Swiss Guards are the Swiss soldiers who have served as guards at foreign European courts since the late 15th century.... more
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Swiss Guard Tribute
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Lin Grosvenor
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Swiss Guards are the Swiss soldiers who have served as guards at foreign European courts since the late 15th century.
The Lion of Lucerne is a rock relief in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820-21 by Lukas Ahorn. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution, when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris.
Mark Twain praised the sculpture of a mortally-wounded lion as "the most mournful and moving piece of stone in the world."
As the Sculpture was in 1972.
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