This would definitely question the rule!
http://www.wappenschild.eu/html/originale_engl.html
Best regards,
Frank
Beautiful shields. What are the rules being questioned? Am I missing something?
Hi Hans,
3 dimensional charges in the shield, because they supposedly never existed!
Gruesse nach D oder Kroatien,
Frank
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.
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.
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.
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!
Best regards,
Frank