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Tiara made for the French princess Marie-Thérèse, Duchess of Angoulême, 1820. A tiara (from Latin: tiara, from Ancient Greek: τιάρα) is a jeweled head ornament.Its origins date back to ancient Iran, which was then adapted by Greco-Romans.
Pius X (1903–1914) in a three-tiered tiara The three-tiered tiara of Pope Clement VI (1342–1352) depicted in his tomb, constructed in 1346. The first notice of three crowns appears in an inventory of the papal treasures of the year 1315 or 1316. An effigy of Pope Benedict XII, which is on display in Avignon shows him wearing a two-tiered ...
List of papal tiaras Name Year Notes 1 Tiara of Pope Gregory XIII 1572–1585 The oldest surviving, made by Cristoforo Foppa. [citation needed] Decoration originally included an emerald (404.5 carats) later incorporated in the Napoleon Tiara.
The papal tiara is a crown that is worn by popes of the Catholic Church from as early as the 8th century to the mid–20th century. It was last used by Pope Paul VI ...
Crowns became essential parts of the regalia of the Roman emperors during the Roman imperial period. [21] The laurel wreaths of a triumphator were often worn by imperial portraits, as were radiate crowns. [21] According to Pliny the Elder, the Arval Brethren, an ancient Roman priesthood, were accustomed to wear a wreath of grain sheaves. [22]
Crowns of Silla: Kept in the Gyeongju National Museum: South Korea Crowns of Baekje: Kept in the Gongju National Museum: South Korea Crowns of Gaya: Kept in the Ho-am Art Museum and the National Museum of Korea: Sri Lanka Crown of Rajasinghe II: Kept in the National Museum of Kandy, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Crown of Sri Vikrama Rajasinha
In India, crowns are known as makuta (Sanskrit for "crest"), and have been used in India since ancient times and are described adorning Hindu gods or kings. The makuta style was then copied by the Indianized kingdoms that was influenced by Hindu-Buddhist concept of kingship in Southeast Asia, such as in Java and Bali in Indonesia, Cambodia ...
In scholarship, the term Armenian tiara is used to refer to a spikey tiara that was characteristic of the coinage of Armenia during the Late Hellenistic period. [1] It originated from the insignia used by the royal and satrapal authority in the Achaemenid Empire . [ 2 ]