Heraldry & Emblems
Late Medieval Wounded Heart
Late Medieval Wounded Heart draws on documented medieval form language to express compassion, devotion, and suffering.
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Historical Context
Late-medieval devotion increasingly focused on Christ's Passion, blood, heart, and wounds. Fifteenth-century woodcuts and personal objects depict a pierced or bleeding heart with the Five Wounds. The Vault mark draws from that evidence but is not presented as the later standardised Sacred Heart emblem.
Provenance: Contemporary arrangement based on documented late-medieval Five Wounds and wounded-heart imagery.
Context note: Distinguishes late-medieval Passion devotion from later formal Sacred Heart iconography.
Research status: reviewed · reviewed 24/07/2026
Sources
- The Sacred Heart and the Five Wounds — Anonymous German woodcut, 1450-1460, museum number 1872,0608.317. (The British Museum)
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