Louvre

This #Blue Bulls tagged image is courtesy of Flickr. Click on the Flickr account holder below the photograph to see more. Image by Following Hadrian These decorative panels of polychrome glazed brick come from the palace of Darius I at Susa. On a blue-green ground, a pair of winged lions with bearded human heads sit facing each other, their heads turned backward. Above them hovers the winged disc of Ahura-Mazda. This complex traditional iconography is rendered in a pure Persian …