ominus1 Posted January 21 · Supporter Share Posted January 21 (edited) just made a purchase..i have two budding Artist in my family that i'm am a patron & benefactor of, and of late i've refreshed my learning of those who in the past brought us out of the dark ages (amongst others things for some :P) with art, architecture, knowledge about our place in the very universe, to name a few.. so here's some art of my Artists and the coin of Cosimo De Medici, l i just paid for (sellers pics, i'll give the lowdown gets it!^^) ADD YOUR COINS N COMMENTS PEEPS! ;D a holed guilio coin 1572, of Cosimo De Medici l Edited January 21 by ominus1 11 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeandAcre Posted January 21 · Member Share Posted January 21 Fantastic artwork, @ominus1! I have to especially like the upper picture in the middle photo. There's a serious colorist in the house! I don't have anything at all from the period (apart from, um, Tudor), but that Cosimo is very cool. I need it how the Medici's arms were six pills. In heraldry, that's called a 'canting device;' granted, they could've just said 'visual pun.' They go back to the 12th century. Here's a favorite early example. This is of Richard de Luci, a Chief Justiciar of Henry II from 1154 to 1179. Gules three lucies (a kind of fish I'd never heard of) or. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ominus1 Posted January 21 · Supporter Author Share Posted January 21 25 minutes ago, JeandAcre said: six pills. ;;it has been said that those were coins... 26 minutes ago, JeandAcre said: Gules three lucies (a kind of fish ...would those be "Gars"?... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panzerman Posted January 21 · Member Share Posted January 21 Duci di Toscano Gaston di Medici AV Florino d'oro 1725 Firenze Mint 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeandAcre Posted January 21 · Member Share Posted January 21 @ominus1, thanks for the illuminating comments! You succeeded in prompting a little Googling. And, Yep, I'm busted! Regarding the heraldry, this proposes coins (/bezants) --the likelier candidate as a possible origin, along with pills; but the consensus seems to revolve around around something completely different. https://www.thoughtco.com/interesting-facts-about-the-medici-coat-of-arms-4070875 The lucy, as it turns out (all news to me), is a species of pike. This Wiki article gets into the related heraldry, with a later variant of the arms, but from the same family. From here, the gar was a good guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esox 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furryfrog02 Posted January 21 · Supporter Share Posted January 21 Great coin and even better art! I'm especially a fan of the Moana/Ariel/Rapunzel piece. I'm pretty certain my daughter has colored a similar if not the same picture. Unfortunately, I don't have it framed but I do have it stored away somewhere. With 4 kids (3 who have reached and passed coloring age), we have quite a lot of artwork around the house. 🙂 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeandAcre Posted January 22 · Member Share Posted January 22 ...I need how Picasso said, likely at some point in his later life (...and this will be the loosest of paraphrases, even from translation; You Were Warned) that all great art originates in someone beginning from childhood. In effect, the people who do the best of it are the ones who never stop. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth77 Posted January 22 · Member Share Posted January 22 There's a statue there that looks like she lost her head with all the art around. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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