Street art · Paris
Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 4.0
Hannibal Barca
By Sébastien Slodtz
Deep in the Tuileries' chestnut-shaded allées, a marble Hannibal leans on his spear beside an ornate urn — 19th-century academic sculpture channeling Carthage's general as a Roman-cloaked hero of antiquity.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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