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Synonyms for coat of arms

the official symbols of a family, state, etc

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new, but made in the antique fashion, with columns decorated with leaves and flowers, bearing a frieze carrying the coats-of-arms of the pope, Cardinal San Sisto, the king of Naples, the duke of Ferrara and the duke of Milan."(19) Further along in his description, Corio mentioned again the great quantity of flowers "beautifully made of silk and imported from France" that decorated the temporary structure.
To sum up its parts: three rooms surrounded an open space and opened towards that space through colonnades; columns entwined with leaves and flowers supported the frieze/entablature with the coats-of-arms mentioned above.
Apostoli where the said cardinal of San Sisto (who has as much power as the pope) had had the whole piazza covered with vele, and on one side of the piazza three rooms opened - all new but made after the antique style - with columns covered with leaves and flowers and a frieze above, very rich and beautiful, with the coats-of-arms of the pope, the cardinal of San Sisto, the king of Naples, the duke of Milan, and the duke Ercole of Ferrara.
Elysium: a prelude to Renaissance theater
Above the shield, there is a crown with five smaller shields bearing historical Croatian coats-of-arms representing (from left to right): the oldest known Croatian coat-of-arms, the Dubrovnik Republic, Dalmatia, Istria, and Slavonia.
Croatia a small country but not a small people. (Feature Article)
There has always been both art and science to the symbols used and what they represent but coats-of-arms and mottos were nothing less than the mission statements of earlier centuries, so this is merely continuing in a grand tradition.
Bright future for history; MARJORIE CALDER meets a man who helps businesses promote themselves for the millennium by delving into the past
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