Crescent facts for kids
In art and symbolism, a crescent is generally the shape produced when a circular disk has a segment of another circle removed from its edge, so that what remains is a shape enclosed by two circular arcs of different diameters which intersect at two points (usually in such a manner that the enclosed shape does not include the center of the original circle).
Images for kids
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Crescent depicted in the shape of a lighted sign
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Miniature of Madonna on the crescent (Rohan Master, Hours of René of Anjou, 15th century)
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Bust of Selene on a Roman sarcophagus (3rd century)
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Taq-e Bostan, from the Sassanid Empire of Persia (pre-Islamic era). Note the crescent above the arch.
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Triple crescent badge of Henry II of France (Château d'Écouen)
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Mamluk lancers, early 16th century (etching by Daniel Hopfer)
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The painting of the 1571 Battle of Lepanto by Tommaso Dolabella (c. 1632) shows a variety of naval flags with crescents attributed to the Ottoman Empire.
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A naval battle painting of the Barbary state of Ottoman Algiers titled A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro, c. 1681
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Madonna on the crescent, Bad Waldsee church (17th century)
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Portrait of a Lady as Diana by Pompeo Batoni (1760s)
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Three examples of coats of arms with crescents from the Dering Roll (c. 1270): No. 118: Willem FitzLel (sable crusily and three crescents argent); no. 120: John Peche (gules, a crescent or, on a chief argent two mullets gules); no. 128: Rauf de Stopeham (argent, two (of three) crescents and a canton gules).
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Coat of arms of the Neuamt bailiwick of Zürich (16th century). Its reversed crescent was taken up in the 20th-century municipal coats of arms of Niederglatt, Neerach and Stadel (canton of Zürich).
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This coat of arms of the Divorde family (Holland and Brabant), around 1440, shows three crescents.
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The emblem of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement around the world
See also
In Spanish: Media luna (símbolo) para niños
