Famous Artists' Arms
seb nelson
Could somebody help me figure out the blazons for the arms of such people
(if they bore arms, that is) as Michelangelo Buonaroti, Leonardo Da Vinci,
Botticelli, Vicent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassat, and Hieronymous
Bosch? I want to write a letter to an artist friend of mine and I'm going
to emblazon their arms in the margins if I can locate them. Thank you!
Sebastian Nelson
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William M. Porquet
seb nelson wrote:
At Francois' site, of course!
http://128.220.1.164/heraldry/topics/famous/fine-art.htm
Kindest regards,
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Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada
seb nelson
These ones aren't there (at least I don't think so).
-seb
Francois R. Velde
"William M. Porquet" <wpor...@nyx.net> wrote:
>seb nelson wrote:
>
>> Could somebody help me figure out the blazons for the arms of such people
>> (if they bore arms, that is) as Michelangelo Buonaroti, Leonardo Da Vinci,
>> Botticelli, Vicent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassat, and Hieronymous
>> Bosch? I want to write a letter to an artist friend of mine and I'm going
>> to emblazon their arms in the margins if I can locate them. Thank you!
>
>At Francois' site, of course!
>
>http://128.220.1.164/heraldry/topics/famous/fine-art.htm
Except that I don't have the arms for any of these people... I'm rather dubious
that any of them did, but who knows. Michelangelo might have.
I'm still trying to find Salvador Dali's arms. He was ennobled: surely he
couldn't have passed up the opportunity to design his own arms! Whether the
design was accepted is another matter....
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Francois Velde <ve...@jhu.edu>
Johns Hopkins University
Heraldry Site: http://econ10.econ.jhu.edu/heraldry/intro.htm
The Bibliographer
In article <snelson-0309...@regulus57.wco.com>,
seb nelson <sne...@wco.com> wrote:
>In article <322CB4...@nyx.net>, wpor...@nyx.net wrote:
>> seb nelson wrote:
>> > Could somebody help me figure out the blazons for the arms of such people
>> > (if they bore arms, that is) as Michelangelo Buonaroti, Leonardo Da Vinci,
>> > Botticelli, Vicent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassat, and Hieronymous
>> > Bosch? I want to write a letter to an artist friend of mine and I'm going
>> > to emblazon their arms in the margins if I can locate them. Thank you!
>> At Francois' site, of course!
>> http://128.220.1.164/heraldry/topics/famous/fine-art.htm
>These ones aren't there (at least I don't think so).
>-seb
The arms of the Buonarroti can be found in Pompeo Litta, <Famiglie Celebri
Italiane>, but the fascicles of that priceless work are bound in so many
different ways that is impossible to give a volume number -- it all
depends on which set you are using. Check WorldCat on OCLC to find the set
nearest to you. Leonardo was not legitimate, and, as far as I know, was
never legitimized, so arms are not in question with him. Degas's family
also was armigerous, under the name De Gas, so you should be able to get a
clue to the arms by following the genealogies in the <Dictionnaire de la
Noblesse>.
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Dieter Birk
>help me figure out the blazons for the arms of such people
>Botticelli, Vicent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassat, and Hieronymous
>Bosch? I want to write a letter to an artist friend of mine and I'm going
>to emblazon their arms in the margins if I can locate them. Thank you!
>sne...@wco.com
The "Heraldry in Canada" journal did a series of articles a few
years back on famous armorial bearings: artists, writers, scientists.
Check the back issues.
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Francois R. Velde
On 4 Sep 1996 16:58:38 -0400, tip...@wam.umd.edu (The Bibliographer) wrote:
>The arms of the Buonarroti can be found in Pompeo Litta, <Famiglie Celebri
>Italiane>
Thank you for that reference! I promptly consulted my nearest copy.
Michelangelo's family bore azure three bends in base and in chief a label
gules, between the four pendants three fleurs-de-lys or. To these arms,
Leo X added a chief: or between the letters L and X sable a ball azure
thereon three fleurs-de-lys or (in fess).
I used the word ball on purpose: the depiction of the fleurs-de-lys on the
object make it clear, from the way they are distorted, that the surface on
which they rest is spherical, not flat. This is the sixth palla or ball in
the arms of the Medici (Leo X was a Medici).
The label and fleurs-de-lys is probably an earlier concession for having
sided with the guelfs (or the ghibelini? I can never remember which is
which).
The same reference allowed me to add the arms of Dante, Ariosto,
Guicciardini to my armory of famous people.
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Francois Velde
Johns Hopkins University
ve...@jhu.edu