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Have you settled on a personal emblem drawn from classical literature yet?

>> No.17906359

>>17905498
Yes, and where can I find more?

>> No.17906363

>>17905498
The best one was already stolen by Loescher :(

>> No.17906381

>>17905498
>Have you settled on a personal emblem
Yes
>drawn from classical literature yet?
No, from a dream

>> No.17906414

>>17905498
http://www.sirbacon.org/links/whitneyemblem.html

>> No.17906415

>>17905498
What book is this? Please tell me it's all about emblems!!!

>> No.17906418
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>>17906359

You can find pictorial inspiration in old books--good info too if you can read Latin or Greek.

Get a load of this guy:
https://archive.org/details/oriapollonisnili00hora/page/26/mode/2up

The adages of Erasmus are really good for filling out your understanding, that and those thick coin manuals with iconographic explanations.

>> No.17906422

>>17906415

Snagged from "Hieroglyph, emblem, and Renaissance pictography".

>> No.17906423

>>17906415
Holy shit guys check this out:
http://bestiary.ca/index.html

And cranes:
http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast234.htm

>> No.17906431

>>17906422
Thank you.

I found it online if anyone else wants a copy:
http://library.lol/main/384AD453BBFBC90A931715308070CCA5

>> No.17906439
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17906439

I've been trying to design a coat of arms that incorporates a design that could double as a Japanese mon for months now. I can't settle on an animal or plant or other natural artifact that represents me and I lack creativity overall so it's been difficult.

>> No.17906442

The butterfly obtains
But little sympathy
Though favorably mentioned
In Entomology —

Because he travels freely
And wears a proper coat
The circumspect are certain
That he is dissolute —

Had he the homely scutcheon
Of modest Industry
'Twere fitter certifying
For Immortality —

>> No.17906455
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>>17906423
holy shit there are even more pics for each beast

>> No.17906485
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>>17906455
>>17906423
lol this is a lion

>> No.17906497

>>17906485
Lol that monk accidentally drew gay lions

>> No.17906500

>>17906497
I wish I was a gay lion....

>> No.17906515

>>17906500
The barbs seem rather nasty, hope you don't want to receive.

>> No.17906550

>>17906500
>>17906497
Go back to 9gag

>> No.17906563
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17906563

Lady fortitude is the most based of virtues.

>> No.17906566

>>17906550
Why don't you 9gag on this dick?

>> No.17906599
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I have something in mind having the birth of Athena as its central motif. One of these days, I'll commission an artist.

Zeus on his throne draped in a himation. Holding a staff or scepter in a raised left hand. Holding a thunderbolt in his lowered right. His head has just been cleft with an axe from behind. Hermes, the blow-giver, is seen fleeing. He's wearing his distinctive hat.

>whence from the cleft summit of her father's brow Athene sprang aloft, and pealed the broad sky her clarion cry of war

>> No.17906638

>>17906563

Wow. Nice legs.

>> No.17906820

>>17906439
>Never get replies to anything I post