see http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=475&start=20#p6226 http://i-p-c-s.org/pattern/ps-63.jpg Observe the two cards in the upper left corner, very similar to your two cards. I remember, that it seems to have been a custom, that the Jack of clubs had the name of the card maker in som...

Who could be the painter of the images of the TdChVI? Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia), Italian painter and miniaturist, San Giovanni Valdarno 1406-1486, would be a very plausible candidate for the realization of the images of this deck - for two reasons. (1) He is a painter documen...

Connection between Adam and 6th of April From https://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienA/Adam.htm Ge­denk­tag ka­tho­lisch: 23. Ja­nu­ar, 24. De­zem­ber Ge­denk­tag evan­ge­lisch: 24. De­zem­ber (EKD) 19. De­zem­ber (LCMS) Ge­denk­tag or­tho­dox: vor­letz­ter Sonn­tag im Ad­vent Er­in­ne­rung an d...

Adam is indeed interesting. Adam was created at the 6th day, and that was the 6th of April. Jesus died at a 6th of April. Petrarca met Laura at the 6th of April 1327. 3x7 years later ... Laura closed eyes and died at the same day (6th of April, but 1348) in the same hour of the day, when they had me...

hi Phaeded, There are so many glossing over of the facts in order to make the Petrarch theory work that it still makes the head spin. No one in Quattrocento northern Italy would make the equation of Justice with sword = Fama without an an attribute of Fama . (hell, the Peselino c. 1450 example of Fa...

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I've once made this article (an overview of Minchiate decks known to me then) http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=420#p5225 May I suggest, that you make your Minchiate exploration there in this thread? The thread is titled Minchiate / Germini or similar. For your letter to Sascha ... ...

I've seen an impressive youtube movie about the museum. There is more than 1 movie at youtube about it. You can write to the owner of the WWPCM, he's a friend. Sascha. Trionfi.com cooperates with him. But he has trouble with his health, and his English is not the best. Complicated questions might be...

Meneghello, a modern man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1nwSnSAVZg If there was a person Meneghello around 1850 making something with Minchiate, then Franco Pratesi would have mentioned him. He didn't. Museo Fournier in Alava https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Fournier_de_Naipes ..... btw: Do you...

I was interrupted, sorry ... here my complete article http://emblems.let.uu.nl/static/images//av1615/pictura/OB-9575-042.jpg http://emblems.let.uu.nl/av1615033.html Ne tumeas fastu, si non ingloria nomen Fama tibi & laudes addidit egregias. Sic te larga Dei excepit clementia: cuius Iste tibi solo mu...