The Chicago Art Institute lions are back in front of the museum.
CHICAGO -- The Art Institute of Chicago's iconic bronze lions returned to their pedestals Tuesday after getting their first deep-clean in nearly 21 years.
"Moving something that huge - and the fact that they're such a symbol of Chicago and of the museum - it feels like an enormous responsibility," said Rachel Sabino, the Art Institute's director of objects and textile conservation. Among the onlookers Tuesday was a 72-year-old grandmother who said she remembered her parents taking her to the museum when she was a toddler - a trip she had re-created in the years since for her own children and their children.
The bronze beasts were made for the 1893 Columbian Exposition by Edward Kemeys after being commissioned by Florence Lathrop, the sister-in-law of Marshall Field. In 1894, Lathrop asked that they be placed on the steps of the building in honor of her late husband, Henry Field.
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