OK this is great but I am confused. Chicken? Emblem of a military company? I feel like I am missing some references but I can't put my finger on it. Nursery rhymes?? What's missing?
Apparently not: I'm no art historian, but from what I could find it was allegorical, either the chicken's claw represented the golden claw that was the emblem, or the chicken represented the leader of the military company in the painting, who was a guy named *checks Wikipedia* Frans Banninck Cocq. Which means rooster in French, or something like it. Coq au vin, and all that.
OK this is great but I am confused. Chicken? Emblem of a military company? I feel like I am missing some references but I can't put my finger on it. Nursery rhymes?? What's missing?
I should've put in a reference: it's a figure in the Night Watch painting, the girl in yellow on the left of the main soldier guy.
Ahhh ok, is there an actual military emblem that includes this? I got excited by the emblem 😂
Apparently not: I'm no art historian, but from what I could find it was allegorical, either the chicken's claw represented the golden claw that was the emblem, or the chicken represented the leader of the military company in the painting, who was a guy named *checks Wikipedia* Frans Banninck Cocq. Which means rooster in French, or something like it. Coq au vin, and all that.
"I'm not real, am I?" Something some of my characters would say defensively if they were accused similarly of being fake...