Index of bibliographical references, mainly of heraldry, arranged alphabetically by authors:
Académie internationale d'héraldique:
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de:
Cátedra de Emblemática Barón de Valdeolivos:
de Pando Villarroya, José Luís Patricio Vicente:
Durasov, Vladimir Alexandrovich:
Fernández-Xesta y Vázquez, Ernesto:
García-Mercadal y García-Loygorri, Fernando:
González Echegaray, Maria del Carmen.:
Labandeira Fernández, Amancio:
Labara Ballestar, Valeriano C.:
Martínez de Aguirre Aldaz, Javier:
Mayoralgo y Lodo, José Miguel de:
Menéndez Pidal de Navascués, Faustino:
Messía de la Cerda y Pita, Luis:
Márquez de la Plata, Vicenta María:
Riesco de Iturri, Miren Begoña:
Tejero de Rojas y Sandoval, Juan Francisco:
Toral y Fernández de Peñaranda, Enrique:
Uhagón y Guardamino, Francisco Rafael:
Valero de Bernabé y Martín de Eugenio, Luis:
Vivar del Riego, José Antonio:
Ramon Medél, «The Spanish Blazon or Heraldic Science, Coats of Arms of the Different Kingdoms into which Spain has been divided, and of the Noble Families thereof», work adorned with 40 lithographed plates, printer J. Guerrero, Conde del Asalto Street 73, Barcelona, 1846.
The author's name «Ramon Medél» is written as the author himself writes it and not «Ramón Medel» as it is written in other bibliographies.
Bibliographical reference of century XIX.
Author: Medél, Ramon.
Bibliographic reference mentioned in the following articles:
Internal resources: MedelR1846.BlasonEspañolCienciaHeraldica.pdf.
This website Blason.es is formed by web pages consisting mainly of Html (HyperText Markup Language) code, with Css (Cascade style sheet) for styling and with some Javascript programming.
The textual content of these web pages is complemented with images fundamentally in JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) format and, also, in PNG (Portable Network Graphic) format, with documents in PDF (Portable Document Format) format and with some videos in MP4 format.
Around March 2015, the structure of these web pages was a fixed format, although they were normally viewed in multiple browsers, including mobile devices.
The image illustrating this article shows the appearance of this site on that date as viewed by the Google Chrome browser.
Category: Technology.
The development of this Blason.es website is mainly tested in Mozilla FireFox and Google Chrome and, also, in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari.
But while it is sought that the visualization of the design in the first 2 is as it was conceived, in the latter 2, it is only required to be acceptably correct.
Therefore, the pages are not overloaded with additional code to achieve optimal visualization neither in Microsoft Internet Explorer nor Apple Safari.
For example, the image illustrating this article shows the appearance of this site, around March 2015, in the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser, where the rounded corners of the white content background do not appear, which are visible in Mozilla FireFox and Google Chrome.
It's not that they cannot be displayed, it's that the development overhead is relinquished to achieve total adequacy, as the effort is mainly dedicated to the content of the site, which is heraldic art.
Category: Technology.
The creation of this website is carried out by a builder program developed specifically for Blason.es.
The content that this builder program uses as raw material consists of articles grouped, by armorial owners or by themes, within objects called agendas.
Each agenda can have from 1 or 2 articles up to dozens of them.
An article is often associated with a specific version of a coat of arms, with a bibliographic reference, with a criterion, etc.
Each of the articles stored in the agendas can belong to a wide set of categories.
Of the more than 550 possible categories, approximately 85% can be associated with heraldic and artistic terms or categories.
The articles can also belong to 5 levels that are named, according to the first letters of the alphabet: (A)nnulled, (B)ilingual, (C)astilian and common, (D)istinguished, (E)shelfed, and (F)rontal.
The dozens of agendas containing the Blason.es articles are organized, in turn, in a large tree structure where each node maintains an agenda, the coats of arms, flags, standards, seals, exlibris, etc. described in the articles of that agenda or of other related agendas, the construction method of these coats of arms along with auxiliary notes, hand-drawn tracings of assemblies or components, the diagrams, their pixel images and their representation in vector graphics, their support documentation, their catalogs of heraldic pieces, etc. This tree structure supports and organizes several Gigabytes of heraldic content (about 125 Gb and increasing).
This tree structure was not created to be exploited by the Blason.es builder program, but precedes the existence of this program.
It is, precisely, the same tree structure that supports the development of my heraldic art which, simultaneously, is used by the Blason.es builder program to extract from it the textual, graphic, etc. content that illustrates this website.
Technically, the Blason.es builder program could be classified within the area of metaprogramming and includes, additionally, certain features that try to move it away from determinism, with the objective that the same input information does not always generate identical web content output.
Since the previous paragraphs were written, the fundamentals have not changed, but there has been an evolution.
The raw material feeding my Blason.es website is a 165 GB repository made up of 87,234 files, fundamentally images (raster and vector) created by me, organized in 5,063 cloud directories.
With the best material from that repository, a bilingual documentation base of posts is maintained, which is independent of the posts' final destination, and which currently contains 3,155 posts (titles, set of possible images, bilingual texts in English and Spanish, although also some French, Italian, and other languages, keywords, and control of the sites where they have been published). This documentation base is the source for publishing on the following channels, social networks, and groups within them: Facebook, Minds, Instagram, Telegram, WhatsApp, BlueSky, Twitter, Pixiv, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, Discord, and Patreon and, of course, for the Blason.es website. This allows maintaining a publication volume of 3,224 posts per year (average of the last 5 years).
Specifically, publication on Blason.es is carried out in 2 phases:
Through the above, Blason.es currently consists of 5,616 HTML pages, 5,282 files in JPEG format, 669 files in PNG format, in addition to MP4 and PDF files.
The pages of Blason.es are organized through a heraldic ontology consisting of 934 keywords in heraldic Castilian and 913 in English heraldic terminology, establishing a network of internal and external hyperlinks that reaches 1,436,823.
Category: Technology.
At the end of May 2015, I evolved the Css (Cascade style sheet) style pages of this Blason.es website to move from a fixed design to a more flexible and adaptable design.
To ensure that this transformation was not particularly costly, and could be done in a few days, flexibility was limited to 2 ranges of the graphic device width, which is usually called a single breakpoint.
These 2 ranges were primarily set in relation to the content of this site and not so much in relation to the possible desktop equipment or mobile devices on which the content could be viewed.
Within each of these 2 ranges, all adaptation is reduced to linear changes in widths.
In the transition from one range to the other, there is only the disappearance of the outer margins and the adaptation of the size of the initial capital letters and titles.
All this is to avoid overloading the style page code excessively and to keep it as clear and explanatory as possible.
Subsequent to the transformation of the web design from fixed to adaptable, some minor changes have been made, such as, for example, the inclusion of a large capital letter at the beginning of each page with articles.
Category: Technology.
External link:
When the style pages of Blason.es were modified to have a more adaptable and fluid design, this transformation had implications for the images of the coats of arms and those of other heraldic objects shown on this website, which changed from referencing certain display sizes in relation to their height, to being defined in terms of proportions, in relation to the width measurements, between those of the heraldic objects and those of their container blocks.
The builder program, which is referenced in the article titled automation of the diffusion of heraldic content, performed the transformation of most of the images to adapt them to its requirements and display locations.
To do this, the builder program read the large format digital images coming from vector graphics, the spaces within the pages where they had to be inserted, and, after checking that no resolution was lost, generated the image for that space and controls the updates of the coat of arms images, so that, if a new original version is generated, it updates the image displayed on this website, performing, again, the appropriate transformations.
Category: Technology.
External link:
I introduce my heraldic style and coats of arms in pinterest.com/blasones with the following description: «My style as a heraldic artist is clear, simbolic and methodic. Clear because my work searches pieces which transmit energy and vital force to the owner, I think that a coat of arms should be a source of light and joy and an expression of freedom. Symbolic because coats of arms must be a representation of its bearer, his/her ideals, motivations, history and anything he/she might want to display. Methodical because heraldic art is founded on a science, the so called science of heraldry».
The blazons in English are in the following Pinterest's board: pinterest.com/blasones/heraldry-coats-of-arms.
Categories: Technology and Social networks.
Root: Pinterest.
Continue with: Bécquer, G. A.; 1862.
Atom, Crescent, Diamond, Emerald, Estoile, Increscent, Lightning flash, Moon, Mount, Mullet, Mullet of four points, Orbital, Plough of Ursa Major, Rainbow, Ray of the sun, River, Sea, Snowflake, Sun, Sun in splendour, Sun of May, Trimount, Water and Wave.
Acorn, Apple, Apple tree, Ash, Bluebonnet, Camellia, Chrysanthemum, Cinquefoil, Cornflower, Dogwood flower, Double rose, Elm, Fleur de lis, Flower, Gourd, Holm oak, Hop cone, Kapok tree, Laurel, Lily, Linden, Lotus flower, Madonna lily, Mexican cedar tree, Oak, Olive tree, Palm tree, Plantain plant, Pomegranate, Poplar leaf, Rose, Shamrock, Sunflower, Thistle, Tree, Tulip, Vine and Wheat.
Badger, Bald eagle, Barbel, Barn owl, Bear, Beaver, Beetle, Bighorn sheep, Blackbird, Boar, Brach hound, Bull, Doe, Dog, Dolphin, Dove, Eagle, Elephant, Falcon, Female figure, Fish, Flame, Fly, Fox, Frog, Goat, Goldfinch, Goose, Heron, Horse, Hummingbird, Jaguar, Lark, Leopard, Lion, Lion passant, Lion rampant guardant, Lioness, Lynx, Male figure, Martlet, Merino ram, Owl, Panther, Parrot, Peacock, Pelican, Pelican in her piety, Puffin, Quetzal, Raven, Roe deer, Rooster, Savage, Seagull, Serpent, She-wolf, Stag, Starling, Talbot, Tyger, Vulture, Warren hound and Wolf.
Arm, Beak, Branch, Caboshed, Chest, Claw, Covert, Dorsal fin, Eagle claw, Ermine spot, Escallop, Feather, Foot (palmiped), Foreleg, Forepaw, Hand, Head, Heart, Hoof, Leaf, Neck, Ostrich feather, Palm frond, Paw, Roe deers' attires, Shoulder, Sprig, Stags' attires, Stem, Swallow-tail, Tail, Tail addorsed, Tail fin, Talon, Tooth, Trunk, Trunk (elephant), Two hands clasped, Two wings in vol, Udder, Wheat spike, Wing and Wrist.
Ace of spades, Anchor, Anvil, Arch, Arm vambraced, Armillary sphere, Arrow, Axe, Bell, Bell tower, Beret, Bonfire, Book, Bookmark, Bow, Branding iron, Bridge, Broken, Buckle, Cannon, Cannon dismounted, Cannon port, Canopy roof, Carbuncle, Castle, Celtic Trinity knot, Chain, Chess rooks, Church, Clarion, Clay pot, Closed book, Club, Column, Comb, Compass rose, Conductor's baton, Cord, Covered cup, Crozier, Crucible, Cuffed, Cup, Cyclamor, Dagger, Double vajra, Drum, Ecclesiastical cap, Fanon, Federschwert, Fleam, Four crescents joined millsailwise, Galician granary, Garb, Gauntlet, Geometric solid, Grenade, Halberd, Hammer, Harp, Host, Hourglass, Key, Key ward, Knight, Knot, Lantern, Letter, Line, Loincloth, Menorah, Millrind, Millstone, Millwheel, Monstrance, Mortar, Mullet of six points pierced, Nail, Non-classic artifact, Norman ship, Number, Oar, Oil lamp, Open book, Page, Pair of scales, Parchment, Pestle, Piano, Pilgrim's staff, Plough share, Polish winged hussar, Port, Portcullis, Potent, Quill, Ribbon, Rosette of acanthus leaves, Sabre, Sackbut, Sail, Scroll, Scythe, Sheaf of tobacco, Ship, Skirt, Spear, Spear's head, Stairway, Star of David, Step, Sword, Symbol, Tetrahedron, Torch, Tower, Trident, Trumpet, Turret, Two-handed sword, Wagon-wheel, Water-bouget, Wheel, Winnowing fan and With a turret.
Angel, Archangel, Basilisk, Dragon, Dragon's head, Garuda, Golden fleece, Griffin, Heart enflamed, Justice, Mermaid, Our Lady of Mercy, Ouroboros, Paschal lamb, Pegasus, Phoenix, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Saint George, Sea-griffin, Trinity, Triton, Unicorn, Winged hand and Wyvern.
Bibliography, Pinterest, Social networks, Century XIX, Technology and Index.
Dr. Antonio Salmerón y Cabañas,
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Paseo de la Castellana 135,
7th floor,
28046 Madrid, Spain.