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Eagle (statue)
In Vatican City, this eagle statue—known in German as Adler and in Italian as Aquila—belongs to the small group of religious and civic artworks that use the eagle as a visual language. The very name attached to the surrounding street, Via dell’Aquilone (“Street of the Little Eagle”), anchors the motif in the local geography rather than treating it as a purely decorative theme. What matters is how consistent the eagle symbol has been across time: in Christian imagery, the eagle is often connected with spiritual elevation and, in older traditions, with the Gospel’s voice reaching upward and outward. …
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