{"id":2165,"date":"2019-09-01T21:39:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T20:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antonzeven.nl\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2023-05-18T17:06:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T15:06:11","slug":"painted-medieval-waxseals-in-west-and-north-west-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genootschap-heraldiek.nl\/antonzeven\/painted-medieval-waxseals-in-west-and-north-west-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted medieval waxseals in West- and North-West Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the second half of the Middele Ages many waxseals were painted. to give the seal another appearance. This act is often not observed by present-day descriptors of seals. Another cause could be that the seals are studied either as casts or as black-white photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There must have been various reasons to paint seals. One of them is the wish of the counts and countesses of Holland to seal with (pale)brown wax. A second is that bishops of Utrecht from 1323 onwards wished to seal with red sealwax. Mostly green wax was available and therefore the seal had to be painted red..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With time the habit of painting seals disappeared, probably, because sealing wax of all colours were locally available, or the sealer took his own wax with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genootschap-heraldiek.nl\/antonzeven\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Painted-medieval-waxseals-in-West-and-North-West-Europe.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lees of download het volledige artikel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second half of the Middele Ages many waxseals were painted. to give the seal another appearance. This act is often not observed by present-day descriptors of seals. Another cause could be that the seals are studied either as casts or as black-white photographs. There must have been various reasons to paint seals. One&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sigillografie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genootschap-heraldiek.nl\/antonzeven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genootschap-heraldiek.nl\/antonzeven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genootschap-heraldiek.nl\/antonzeven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genootschap-heraldiek.nl\/antonzeven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genootschap-heraldiek.nl\/antonzeven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genootschap-heraldiek.nl\/antonzeven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genootschap-heraldiek.nl\/antonzeven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genootschap-heraldiek.nl\/antonzeven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genootschap-heraldiek.nl\/antonzeven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genootschap-heraldiek.nl\/antonzeven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}