It has lovely curling metal arms painted in a sort of faded, scumbly green, and long, silvery slats made of a forestry-certified wood called Shorea, taken from sustainably managed forests.
It commemorates 25 years of marriage for Queen Maria-Josepha and King Frederick-Augustus II of Saxony, and is decorated with their personal royal coat of arms, painted flowers and allegorical pastoral scenes.
In "Burnt by the Sun," a near life-size white woman holds out arms painted an alarmingly intense pink; her injury, one understands, is more of the soul than of the body.
The club's interior walls are covered with murals — depicting bulbous birds, disembodied female heads with swooping bouffant hair, and a small forest of intertwining, hairy arms — painted by local artists and musicians, creating a colorful oasis inside a grim shell.
When George Washington assembled his troops in New York to hear the ringing phrases read aloud, they caused a near riot, as militiamen and civilians rampaged along Broadway, demolishing every vestige of the Crown, down to the "royal arms painted on tavern signs," Ron Chernow writes in his biography of Alexander Hamilton.
Fig. 2 Family coats of arms used by Erasmus Darwin as a bookplate, similar to the coat of arms painted on his carriage in 1770 (from King-Hele (1999).
Military flags were tricolors with the national coat of arms painted in the center.
These hatchments are diamond-shaped representations of individual coats of arms, painted for their funeral processions and then hung in the parish church.
WHEN I was 12 going on 20, and mashing stacks of black jelly bracelets up my arms, painting my fingernails a frosty blue and wearing my hot-pink-and-black tiger print tank top five out of seven days of the week, I fell in love.
