Peace Symbols - Gallery

Gallery

• Mars celebrated as peace-bringer, bearing an olive branch, on the reverse of a coin struck under Aemilianus

• Early Christian representation of baptism, Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter, Rome, 3rd to 4th century CE, showing dove with branch.

• Wall painting from the early Christian Catacomb of Priscilla in Rome, 3rd/4th century CE, showing the figures of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in a fire above whom flies a dove with a branch in its beak

• Seal of the Magistrates of the Dieci di Balia (The Ten of Liberty and Peace), Florence, 15th century.

• William and Mary receive the olive branch from Peace. Painting by James Thornhill, c.1700, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

• George I farthing, 1719, showing Brittania with a sword and olive branch

• A German war loan poster, 1917

• Cartoon from Punch, 1919. "OVERWEIGHTED. President Wilson: 'Here's your olive branch. Now get busy.' Dove of Peace: 'Of course I want to please everybody; but isn't this a bit thick?'"

• Picasso's Dove reproduced in a banner at the 1952 World Peace Congress in Berlin

• Communist demonstration in the German Democratic Republic, c.1950, with dove symbols inscribed, "Für den Frieden" (For Peace)

• A white poppy among red poppies placed on the Waitati cenotaph on Anzac Day, 2009

• A 2003, Los Angeles anti-war protester making the peace sign.

• Richard H. Springman, U.S. Army, wearing a peace symbol necklace, speaking with a North Vietnamese Army officer, 18 February 1973, after the Paris Peace Accords

• A Tōshō-gū shrine in Tokyo, Japan, on which paper cranes have been hung. The shrine also shows a dove in flight

• Tri-lingual wordmark used to represent peace between Israel and Palestine: the Hebrew word "Shalom" in blue, the Arabic word "Salaam" in green and the English word "Peace" in orange

• The Spanish word for peace and a peace dove; graffiti in Madrid

• Lennon Wall in Prague, Czech Republic

• The peace sign

• Arborsculpture achieved by grafting

• Grave of actor Ed Bishop, who campaigned against the Military–industrial complex