Heart (symbol)
The heart symbol is a symbol used to express affection or love, especially if it is romantic. A wounded heart symbol is used to express lovesickness, and is either shown pierced with an arrow or broken into two or more pieces.
Heart (symbol) Media
A heart symbol from the Achaemenid period, in the Louvre Museum, made of ivory
A sasanian-style textile from first century AH that shows two winged horses with one heart symbol top of them.
Coat of arms of the Principality of Lüneburg, originating with William of Winchester, Lord of Lüneburg (d. 1213) who married Helena, daughter of Valdemar I of Denmark, and therefore adopted the "Danish tincture" to the arms of his father, Henry the Lion
A heart pictured in the coat of arms of the Laukaa municipality
The earliest known possible visual depiction of a heart symbol, as a lover hands his heart to the beloved lady, in a manuscript of the Roman de la poire, 13th century.
Giotto's allegory of charity handing her heart to Jesus Christ (c. 1305)
Charity on the south doors of the Florence Baptistery (c. 1336)
The chanson Belle, Bonne, Sage by Baude Cordier, written in the shape of a heart, in the Chantilly Codex. This is one of two dedicatory pieces placed at the beginning of the older (late 14th century) corpus, probably to replace the original first fascicle, which is missing.
Early depiction of the Heart of Jesus in the context of the Five Wounds (the wounded heart here depicting Christ's wound inflicted by the Lance of Longinus) in a 15th-century manuscript.
