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  2. Tricking - Wikipedia

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    Tricking is a method for indicating the tinctures (colours) used in a coat of arms by means of text abbreviations written directly on the illustration. Tricking and hatching are the two primary methods employed in the system of heraldry to show colour in black and white illustrations.

  3. Lady with an Ermine - Wikipedia

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    The Lady with an Ermine [n 1] is a portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da ... The Ermine Hunt (c. 1490), a pen and ink drawing by Leonardo da ...

  4. Ermine (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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    Ermine (/ ˈ ɜːr m ɪ n /) in heraldry is a fur, a type of tincture, consisting of a white background with a pattern of black shapes representing the winter coat of the stoat (a species of weasel with white fur and a black-tipped tail). The linings of medieval coronation cloaks and some other garments, usually reserved for use by high-ranking ...

  5. Head of a Bear - Wikipedia

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    Cropped and rotated head of the ermine in Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine. Head of a Bear is thought to have been executed by a young Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452) circa 1480. . It is a close-up drawing of a bear's head on a 7-by-7-centimetre (2.8 in × 2.8 in) piece of pink-beige pap

  6. Cecilia Gallerani - Wikipedia

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    Drawing of Gallerani by Leonardo. Cecilia Gallerani (Italian pronunciation: [tʃeˈtʃiːlja ɡalleˈraːni]; early 1473 – 1536) was the favourite and most celebrated of the many mistresses of Ludovico Sforza, known as Lodovico il Moro, Duke of Milan. She is best known as the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Lady with an Ermine (c. 1489).

  7. Ermine - Wikipedia

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    Ermine may also refer to: Ermine (heraldry) , the white winter fur and black tail end of the stoat, which is historically worn by and associated with royalty and high officials "Ermine marks" are dark patches of color on the white limb of a horse, just above the level of the hoof

  8. Hatching (heraldry) - Wikipedia

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    The heraldic furs (ermine, vair) do not need a special hatching method, as they have a special pattern that is easily recognizable even on the uncoloured illustrations. Nevertheless, there existed two heraldic furs that had their own hatchings.

  9. Stoat - Wikipedia

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    Skull. The root word for "stoat" is likely either the Dutch word stout ("bold") [4] or the Gothic word 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌽 (stautan, "to push"). [5] According to John Guillim, in his Display of Heraldrie, the word "ermine" is likely derived from Armenia, the nation where it was thought the species originated, [4] though other authors have linked it to the Norman French from the ...