Such theories are modern, proposed from the 1960s onward, and they remain speculative, as no continuity between the supposed ancient predecessors and the late medieval tradition can be shown. Various hypotheses attempted to connect the "heart shape" as it evolved in the Late Middle Ages with instances of the geometric shape in antiquity. The modern indented red heart has been used on playing cards since the late 15th century. The convention of showing a dent at the base of the heart thus spread at about the same time as the convention of showing the heart with its point downward. A slightly later example with a more pronounced dent is found in a manuscript from the Cistercian monastery in Brussels.
The "scalloped" shape of the now-familiar heart symbol, with a dent in its base, arises in the early 14th century, at first only lightly dented, as in the miniatures in Francesco Barberino's Documenti d'amore (before 1320). The convention of showing the heart point upward switches in the late 14th century and becomes rare in the first half of the 15th century. 1340) and by Andrea da Firenze in Santa Maria Novella in Florence ( c. 1337), by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the Palazzo Publico in Siena ( c. Giotto's painting exerted considerable influence on later painters, and the motive of Caritas offering a heart is shown by Taddeo Gaddi in Santa Croce, by Andrea Pisano on the bronze door of the south porch of the Florence Baptistery ( c. This heart is also depicted in the pine cone shape based on anatomical descriptions of the day (still held "upside down"). Giotto in his 1305 painting in the Scrovegni Chapel ( Padua) shows an allegory of charity (caritas) handing her heart to Jesus Christ. Opinions therefore differ over this being the first depiction of a heart as symbol of romantic love. Thus the heart shaped object would be a pear the conclusion that a pear represents a heart is dubious.
Moreover, the French title of the manuscript that features the miniature translates into "Novel Of The Pear" in English.
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However, in this miniature what suggests a heart shape is only the result of a lover's finger superimposed on an object the full shape outline of the object is partly hidden, and therefore unknown. The heart here resembles a pine cone (held "upside down", the point facing upward), in accord with medieval anatomical descriptions.
In the miniature a kneeling lover (or more precisely, an allegory of the lover's "sweet gaze" or doux regard) offers his heart to a damsel. It occurs in a miniature decorating a capital 'S' in a manuscript of the French Roman de la poire. The first known depiction of a heart as a symbol of romantic love dates to the 1250s. The geometric shape itself is found in much earlier sources, but in such instances does not depict a heart, but typically foliage: in examples from antiquity fig leaves, and in medieval iconography and heraldry typically the leaves of ivy and of the water-lily. īefore the 14th century, the heart shape was not associated with the meaning of the heart metaphor. With possible early examples or direct predecessors in the 13th to 14th century, the familiar symbol of the heart representing love developed in the 15th century, and became popular in Europe during the 16th. The combination of the heart shape and its use within the heart metaphor was developed in the end of the Middle Ages, although the shape has been used in many ancient epigraphy monuments and texts. Silver coins from Cyrene of the 5th–6th century BC bear a similar design, sometimes accompanied by a silphium plant and is understood to represent its seed or fruit. In the 5th–6th century BC, the heart shape was used to represent the heart-shaped fruit of the plant silphium, a plant possibly used as a contraceptive. Heart-shaped peepal leaves were used in artistic depictions of the Indus Valley Civilisation: a heart pendant originating from there has been discovered and is now exhibited in the Delhi national museum.
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