Questionable Rule!

 
Frank Martinoff
 
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02 November 2008 01:01
 

This would definitely question the rule!

http://www.wappenschild.eu/html/originale_engl.html

 

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Frank

 
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02 November 2008 03:53
 

Beautiful shields. What are the rules being questioned? Am I missing something?

 
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02 November 2008 03:58
 

Hi Hans,

3 dimensional charges in the shield, because they supposedly never existed!

 

Gruesse nach D oder Kroatien,

Frank

 
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02 November 2008 07:51
 

The shields are in relief, and the lion seems to be high relief.  That is a common feature of the time, in things such as paintings even, to enhance the image and show the extravagance afforded.

 
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02 November 2008 08:58
 

The "rule" is not that charges can’t be shown raised from the surface of the shield.  It’s that arms should not be designed in a way that requires three-dimensional or perspective representation.

 
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02 November 2008 10:54
 

I have to agree with Alexander. Three-dimensional charges are nothing out of the ordinary in early heraldry. It is not that they had to be three-dimensional, it was rather an artistic application.

 
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02 November 2008 13:29
 

Thank you Hans, Alexander and Joseph,

I wish some German Heraldic Experts would be

capable using your very carefully chosen words!

 

Instead of shooting one over the slightest shadow in a charge!

 

Interesting to me was also the realization, that the texture/facets

in some Medieval paintings/CoAs

are reality not fiction or mere decoration to enhance the tinctures!

 

wink

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Frank