quatrafoil sightings

[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

I work at Chili's. I do not heart it.

[Not a Mezzo]

Lol...I do not heart it either! I quit about a week ago because they're awful with scheduling and the trainers/managers kept treating me like I was dumb.

One of our sisters who graduated this past spring has worked there for over a year, is a trainer/bartender, and has been doing corporate hostess training for the region, as well. So hating Chili's isn't exactly a Phi Mu thing.

[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

It should be. I would poop on Chili's if I could.

[Aglaia1852]

Has anyone ever been to the Midland Theater in Kansas City? We went last night for the Josh Groban concert and I was amazed. The entire ceiling was covered in quatrefoils. It was just beautiful!

[Not a Mezzo]

I was sitting in my "Survey of Western Art" class today, taking notes for all I was worth. We're on Late Gothic art (fascinating, I know). The lecturer put up some slides from a frescoed chapel in Italy to draw attention to the details in the paintings. The whole thing is done in frames, where the borders of each picture are decorated to look like actual frames, not just painted-on borders.

Well, in the frame of one picture were two portraits of saints painted inside two quatrafoils! I know it's a popular design in Europe, but it just made my day to see that.

[OUlioness01]

the catholic church i go to at school sometimes has quatrafoiles on all of it's stained glass windows...it's extremely fitting that one of my sisters is planning on getting married there!

[Adelphean1851]

Sorry to crash your forum ladies but I was curious, what exactly is a quatrefoil? is it an architectual convention er what? ya'll defiantely have one of the most original badge shapes out there.

[lionlove]

A quatrefoil is a rounded rectangle shape with 4 arrow like points coming out of the sides of the rectangle. It is sometimes found in European renaissance art and architecture as well as different religious objects. It does have a *special* meaning to us and I like it becuase it is a unique shape.

[pinkyphimu]

Originally posted by Adelphean1851
Sorry to crash your forum ladies but I was curious, what exactly is a quatrefoil? is it an architectual convention er what? ya'll defiantely have one of the most original badge shapes out there.

our badge is a quatrefoil!

claire, i can not believe that we didn't mention that the chapel at muhlenberg has a quatrefoil! we usually have inititation there.

[lionlove]

How did I forget Egner Chapel??? I only went to church there every Sunday. Thanks Maria.

[orchid2]

I have seen quatrefoils in some random places.

My Mom lives in New Mexico, and I spotted one in a ceiling window at a restaurant where we ate.

I was shopping in an outdoor mall in Birmingham, and noticed one of the fountains was quatrefoil-shaped. (There are several lion sculptures that sit in another fountain at the same mall!)

My boyfriend has a big portrait of a lion in his living room, and upon closer inspection, I discovered a small, golden quatrefoil in the corner!

Kind of makes me wonder about the whether the people who made these things are of any affiliation with Phi Mu.

[ladybug1116]

Originally posted by orchid2
I was shopping in an outdoor mall in Birmingham, and noticed one of the fountains was quatrefoil-shaped. (There are several lion sculptures that sit in another fountain at the same mall!)

There are quite a few quatrefoil fountains at the Summit Everytime I pass them (which is often) I always think about Phi Mu

I guess I must be completely unobservant because I've never noticed the lion statue in the fountain. I have some errands to run there this weekend...I'll have to take note!

[TNPhiMu]

I was in my boyfriend's grandparent's house over Spring Break a few weeks ago and looked up and his grandmother had two wooden tray's BOTH in the shape of a quatrafoil hanging on the wall! I got all excited when we left, telling him about it. He just thought I was crazy though

[DigitalAngel126]

I just don't understand. lol. Does someone have a link to maybe how they explain how it's done? How can it look so 3d?? It's creeping me out!!

[RoseNWhiteLion]

did you want a link to how the quatrefoil looks, or how the street chalk drawings look 3D? ;-)

The quatrefoil is in so many churches in Europe because it represents four circles overlapping symbolizing the four gospels, and the four points are liek a compass spreading the four gospels in the four directions, to spread Christianity throughout the world.

There's your fun fact for the day!