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Emblem facts for kids

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A pilgrim with a scallop shell emblem

An emblem is a pictorial image either abstract or representational. It represents a concept — for example, a moral truth, or an allegory — or a person, such as a king or saint. For example, the scallop shell is the traditional emblem of James, son of Zebedee. Pilgrims wore it on their hat or clothes to show that they were travelling to the shrine at Santiago de Compostela.

Images for kids

  • The Wilton Diptych (Right)

    The Wilton Diptych (c. 1395–99) features angels wearing white hart (a deer), the personal emblem of King Richard II of England.

  • House of the Prince of Naples in Pompeii Plate 147 Triclinium Emblem on North Wall MH

    House of the Prince of Naples in Pompeii Triclinium Emblem on North Wall

  • Emblemata Politica-Minor esca maioris

    "The big eat the small", a political emblem from an emblem book, 1617

See also

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