This is a wonderful find ! Thanx for the heads up Mary. The bottom of the Moon card that is shown on the site you've linked to has a familiar look to me now. Very similar to the non Tarot art of Pamela Colman Smith, in fact. Her art can be seen at Roppo's site http://www7.ocn.ne.jp/~elfindog/pcswork...

Hi again Peeps ! I've found another treasure trove. This one does not contain any of the work of PCS, so far as I can tell, but it is an important survey of the art world she inhabited. A german magazine called Jugend (meaning 'youth'). This magazine gave it's name to the German word used for what w...

Hey Huck ! - I made a huge mistake about Le moyne. :D The book everyone cites in modern emblem scholarship is by Paolo Giovio http://www.archive.org/details/dialoguedesdevis00giov http://www.archive.org/details/dialogodellimpre00giov David Manning says in "The Emblem' pg 73 (Reaktion Books 200...

Hi mikeh - You really know your stuff! I've been studying emblem books for 1 and 1/2 years now, and I could never take apart one like you did above the phoenix that Huck pictured is an example of a phoenix that doesn't have a fire under him but instead stretches his wings to the sun (as in the Conve...

... I took a look at these works and they don't get my enthusiasm. well, I have to agree. These kinds of emblems are rather plain looking and boring after a while. Perhaps the Prosopographia, sive, Virtvtvm, animi, corporis, bonorvm externorvm, vitiorvm, et affectvvm variorvm delineatio will get yo...

Hi Huck -Pierre Le Moyne also wrote one of the first books about emblems and 'devices' ( heraldic logos of a sort). EDITED August 19 2011 - I was mistaken on this. It was Paolo Giovio, not Le Moyne. See my correction post later in this thread http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=72...

Hi Huck, Glad to see you're still going strong here. I have to say that I do not see a bow string in this womans hand. I recall reading someone somewhere speculating that this figure is diana with a bow string. But I see 2 cords which disappear up under her clothes. They have knobby ends. But I see ...

Well Sumada, there it all is ! You people on this forum are amazing. Everything at your fingertips. I feel that Sumada's proposal that Pamela Coleman Smith used the 4 evangelists from the Mantegna deck has been supported here with as much evidence as we are likely to get, short of a recorded stateme...

Hi Sumada. It's been 2 months since I've had time to do any posting. Sorry it took me so long to get back to you on your post here. If you ever check back here again, here's my belated answer. These 4 figures are the 4 evagelists from the Bible. Mathew, Mark, Luke and John. They are all over the Mid...

Pamela C deck in hi rez
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