Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads 1860 during the Second Opium War, at which time the fountainheads were looted. They were originally made by an Italian Jesuit, Giuseppe Castiglione. In May 2015, Sean Parker paid US$4.4 million at Phillips for the small (gold) version of the 12-sculpture work by Ai Weiwei. In June 2015, a large (bronze) version sold at auction for $5.4 million. 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,
Jacob (name) Jacob (name) Jacob is a common male given name and a less well-known surname. It is a cognate of James. Jacob is derived from Late Latin "Iacobus", from Greek "Iakobos", from Hebrew ("Yaʿqob", "Yaʿaqov", " Yaʿăqōḇ"), the name of the Hebrew patriarch, Jacob son of Isaac and Rebecca. The name comes either from the Hebrew root "ʿqb" meaning "to follow, to be behind" but also "to supplant, circumvent, assail, overreach", or from the word for "heel", "ʿaqeb". In the narrative of Genesis, it refers to the circumstances of Jacob's birth when he held on to the heel of his older