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Fleur-de-lis
Coat of arms of France
A leopard's face jessant-de-lys, left: shown in the standard form with fleur-de-lys erect, right: shown in the unusual form with the fleur-de-lys reversed. Jessant-de-lys is a heraldic term denoting a fleur-de-lys issuing out of any object. [1] It is most frequently seen in conjunction with a leopard 's face, meaning in heraldic language the ...
Coat of arms of Paris
Papal coats of arms
Seal of the grand master of the Knights Templar
Crosses in heraldry
In the 13th century, the Gothic style of art began to emerge and spread throughout all of Europe. While Romanesque art had often used abstract images to convey complicated concepts, in later medieval Europe, artists increasingly focused on visually reproducing aspects of the world around them, embracing realism and naturalism, as can be seen in the proportions of figural works, and the details ...