About the project
The
goal of the collection is to gather and present the largest possible number of
coats of arms belonging to former noble families that can still be found in
Slovenia today. The vast majority are carved stone coats of arms displayed on
the façades of various buildings, tombstones, and memorial plaques, and some
were also used as identification elements in portraits or as decorative
elements gracing utilitarian objects. Many are currently unknown or misidentified
after the knowledge about them has been lost due to the long neglect of
research on the nobility in Slovenia. One of the main objectives is therefore
to correctly identify individual noble coats of arms. The collection is
structured in a way that the description of each coat of arms includes information
regarding its location (place, building, and object), followed by a detailed
presentation of the arms and the circumstances under which they were created. In
addition, the website offers a simultaneous display of all coats of arms
belonging to the same noble family in different locations. The presentations are
also provided in English. Serving as a corpus of in situ Slovenian noble
heraldry, the collection is thus envisaged to be of particular interest to
Slovenian public, while its English version may also benefit users worldwide.