Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads is an artwork by Chinese contemporary artist and political commentator, Ai Weiwei. The work comes in a small (gold) and large (bronze) version. Created in 2010, the zodiac heads (a Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig) are inspired by those which once comprised a water clock-fountain at the Old Summer Palace, which is a complex of palaces and gardens in Beijing that were constructed by the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty. The Old Summer Palace was eventually destroyed by French and British troops in
Regina Coeli recited in place of the "Angelus" during the Easter season, from Easter Sunday until Pentecost. As with many Christian prayers, it takes its name from its incipit or first word(s). The Latin word "coelum", meaning "heaven" (hence the English word "celestial"), was a common medieval and early modern spelling of "caelum", which was the only form in Classical Latin. In medieval Latin, "ae" and "oe" were both pronounced [eː]; the form was also influenced by an extremely dubious etymology from Greek "koilos", "hollow". While the authorship of the "Regina Caeli" is unknown, the hymn has been traced back to the