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To sinister or contourné (contourny) is said of a creature facing the viewer's right. Affronté ( / ˌ æ f r ə n ˈ t eɪ / ) (also affronty , affrontee , affronted , or affrontant ) is said of a creature (or other heraldic component such as a helm or the face of a man) that faces the viewer (e.g., of a lion, "affronté-sejant")
Winged hippocamp in an Art Deco fountain, Kansas City, Missouri, (1937). The hippocampus, or hippocamp or hippokampos (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps; Ancient Greek: ἱππόκαμπος, from ἵππος, 'horse', and κάμπος, 'sea monster' [1]), sometimes called a "sea-horse" [2] in English, [citation needed] is a mythological creature mentioned in Etruscan, Greek, Phoenician, [3 ...
Manaia pounamu carving. The Manaia is a mythological creature in Māori culture, and is a common motif in Māori carving [1] and jewellery.. The Manaia is usually depicted as having the head of a bird and the tail of a fish and the body of a man, though it is sometimes depicted as a bird, a serpent, or a human figure in profile.
The drawing was created as part of The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (1503–1519, Musée du Louvre, n° inv. 776). Leonardo da Vinci was over fifty-five years old [4] when he created the drawing of The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right in the years 1508–1510.
The male seahorse is equipped with a brood pouch on the ventral, or front-facing, side of the tail. When mating, the female seahorse deposits up to 1,500 eggs in the male's pouch. The male carries the eggs for 9 to 45 days until the seahorses emerge fully developed, but very small. The young are then released into the water, and the male often ...
30 years after its release, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, and more recall the set of Oliver Stone's explosive film.
The bend is a stripe running from the upper left to the lower right, as \, as seen by the viewer. The bend sinister runs from the upper right to the lower left, as /. (In heraldry sinister (Latin: left) refers to the left side of the shield from the perspective of the one wearing it, hence the right side from the viewer's perspective.)
The "proper right" hand of a figure is the hand that would be regarded by that figure as its right hand. [1] In a frontal representation, that appears on the left as the viewer sees it, creating the potential for ambiguity if the hand is just described as the "right hand".