Lienhart Holl, bookprinter in Ulm, produced also playing cards https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lienhart_Holl Lienhart Holl († nach 1492) ist der dritte nachgewiesene Buchdrucker in der Freien Reichsstadt Ulm. Er mehrte mit seiner Offizin in den 1480er Jahren den Ruhm der Stadt als Erscheinungsort bede...

Alessandro Sforza Tarot / Temperance


Charles VI Tarot / Temperance


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The author of the virtues-picture is Francesco Pesellino (ca. 1450, so somehow close to the of the earliest Florentine Trionfi decks). Perhaps you find with the name a hint for the presented heroes of the virtues. You can think, what you want with this figure. Prudentia, World, Fama. The idea, that ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomáš_Štítný_ze_Štítn https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_von_Stítné .... shall have written a "little chessbook" on the base of the work of Cessolis in Czech language in 14th century. According this picture of a text, which has the title: "DIE KÖNIGLICHEN FESTE IM MIT...

Only rarely Fame is dressed with the polygonal halo. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Triumph_of_Fame http://www.tarot.org.il/Minchiate/Minchiate18.jpg Virtues in contrast have it very often. And when there are 3 cardinal virtues at one place with the specific halo, one should be sure, th...

For the year 1444 we have the report from Florence, that 2 persons were accused and punished for playing with Trionfi cards. http://naibi.net/A/424-GIGLIO444-Z.pdf https://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=245161 For the year 1450 and December we have the declaration in Florence, that the Trionfi ...

I wrote: "The missing Prudentia in Tarot disguised possibly more as Fame or World and with that as the highest trump." Firecatpickles wrote: "Why would we have Prudence (with a mirror), Fame and World, and Time in the Minchiate, though, if this were true?" Hm ... how would you describe the following...

https://www.tarotforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=47047&stc=1&d=1292964914 The polygonal halo was often used for the presentation of virtues, especially in Florence .... Cards of the Charles VI Tarot https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Force_tarot_charles6.jpg Virtue Force http...

Prudentia had occasionally 2 or 3 faces. This doesn't mean, that Father Time became her second face generally, I would think. Actually the typus with 2 or 3 faces is rare. More often appears the attribute "mirror", which also generates a second face. Or the viper or dragon, which then was the second...

James Legge translated all Chinese classics during his long life. He died 1897. An influential I-Ching translation was published 1899 short after his death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Legge Richard Wilhelm published his German translation of the I-Ching in 1924. Wirth was from Switzerland a...