On receiving the award, Cronenberg said the Golden Lion statuette, which is in the shape of a lion with wings - a symbol of the city of Venice - represented "the monster of art and of truth." ...

The Best Participant Golden Lion went to the Mataaho Collective ... are also migrants and embody the spirit of the International Art Exhibition - titled 'Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere'.

Lion tamarins take their name from their impressive manes—thick rings of hair reminiscent of Africa's great cats. The golden lion tamarin may be the most beautiful of the four lion tamarin species.

"Shakespeare pissed off Elizabeth I, and he had to get out of London, and the rumours are that he would have escaped to the Golden Lion with his mate Francis Bacon." That's straight from the mouth ...