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A cross fleury. A cross fleury (or flory) is a cross adorned at the ends with flowers in heraldry. [1] It generally contains the fleur-de-lis, trefoils, etc. Synonyms or minor variants include fleuretty, fleuronny, floriated and flourished. [2] In early armory, it is not consistently distinguished from the cross patonce. [3]
An Ethiopian Orthodox priest with traditional Axumite crosses Ethiopian, brass, latticework, blessing cross. Ethiopian crosses, Abyssinian crosses, or Ethiopian-Eritrean crosses are a grouping of Christian cross variants that are symbols of Christianity in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and among Ethiopians and Eritreans. Their elaborate, stylized design ...
A flowered cross in a parish church (2006) Flowering the cross is a Western Christian tradition practiced at the arrival of Easter, in which worshippers place flowers on the bare wooden cross that was used in the Good Friday liturgy, in order to symbolize "the new life that emerges from Jesus’s death on Good Friday".
A red Cross of Saint James with flourished arms, surmounted with an escallop, was the emblem of the twelfth-century Galician and Castillian military Order of Santiago, named after Saint James the Greater. Saint Julian Cross: A Cross Crosslet tilted at 45 degrees with the tops pointing to the 'four corners of the world'.
How to Draw Cool Stuff is a series of bestselling self help drawing guides written and illustrated by Catherine V. Holmes [1] and published by Library Tales Publishing. The first book in the series was published in 2014 with subsequent titles released in 2015 and 2016.
A variety of chisels that can be used to craft designs into a variety of materials, such as tissue paper. Traditionally, papel picados are crafted entirely by hand. When crafting a papel picado, the first step is to draw out the selected design onto the paper and then cover the paper with transparent plastic; this will protect the original drawing.
Flags with crosses are recorded from the later Middle Ages, e.g. in the early 14th century the insignia cruxata comunis of the city of Genoa, the red-on-white cross that would later become known as St George's Cross, and the white-on-red cross of the Reichssturmfahne used as the war flag of the Holy Roman Emperor possibly from the early 13th ...
In a continuous-line drawing, the artist looks both at the subject and the paper, moving the medium over the paper, and creating a silhouette of the object. Like blind contour drawing, contour drawing is an artful experience that relies more on sensation than perception; it's important to be guided by instinct. [2]