crest with lion painted the ceiling vault ring room fortress vignola italy

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Crest with a lion painted on the ceiling vault of the Ring Room in the Fortress of Vignola, Italy.

Pictured is a crest with a lion painted on the ceiling vault of the Ring Room in the Fortress of Vignola near Modena, Italy. The room is decorated with the three diamond rings, of the Este device, intertwined to form an equilateral triangle. The three intertwined ring colors, white, red and green, trace back to the beginning of the 15th century as the noble Este family's colors.