39 and valuable examples of tlie banners of the eleventh century, to which we venture to call attention, believing that they possess a religious and heraldic interest, not hitherto attributed to them. One banner, fig. 75, is … repeatedly represented, and always in the hand of, or near to, a figure supposed to be that of Duke William of Normandy, it is presumed to be the flag said to have been presented to him by Pope Alexander, before the invasion of England, in testimony of his assent to William’s claim upon the English…
Nimbus (Art) · Christian art and symbolism
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