The 13th-century French manuscript "Romance of the Pear" contains an early depiction of the heart as a symbol of love ... an attempt by late medieval artists to “correct” the newly observed ...

The heart symbol, with its two scallops on top and V-shaped point at the bottom, is one of the world’s most familiar emblems—found everywhere from jewelry to emojis to the Valentine’s Day ...

You see this shape on thousands of items of Ancient Greek pottery, but the heart symbol as we see it today is a medieval or renaissance invention A relatively early, but secure, example of the ...

Culturally, the heart begins to grow in its meanings. The heart icon becomes a major symbol for medieval heraldry, where it is used to signify sincerity and clarity. In art and chivalric ...

From ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs to medieval relics ... we might pause to remember that the power of the heart has been a symbol of life, death and everything in between for millennia.

"There's lot of icons and symbols out there ... Giotto and Pisano are among the medieval artists who use "heart" iconography in their work. This was, after all, the age of chivalry.

From ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs to medieval relics ... we might pause to remember that the power of the heart has been a symbol of life, death and everything in between for millennia.

But why? “It didn’t mean love before the 13th and 14th centuries,” says Eric Jager, author of The Book of the Heart and medieval literature professor at UCLA. When the shape was drawn before ...

How did the heart shape become the symbol of true love? The Catholic Church contends that the modern heart shape did not come along until the 17 th century, when Saint Margaret Mary Alocoque had a ...