Ya, the fly is actually more common in Christian art than you'd think. Crivelli's "Madonna and Child (With a Goldfinch)" in The Met is a nice general example. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/49.7.5 (Sidebar: It's quite an amazing thing in person. It looks like it was painted yes...

Hullo Pen.
I believe that would be a fly.

Very nice discovery.

Bertrand wrote:.......Jean-Marie Lhôte says that the only source for this deck is this reproduction from the Dictionnaire Larousse mensuel.......

A lot of things got lost during the World Wars.
Especially in Germany and France.
It may very well be gone, but for this little drawing.

Hullo OnePotato. This is the thread that pulls you out of retirement? What is it that I've said to raise your interest so much to post again? Whatever it is, I'm glad to see you. Did I use the phrase "only a game"? I certainly believe that tarot was used primarily as a game, and was inven...

Hullo Robert.

Can you tell us why all of this information you have listed was used "Only as a game"?

How literal do you imagine these people were, compared to yourself, for instance?

Ross, I appreciate your enthusiasm but to avoid confusion, it would probably be better to start a separate thread if you want to add other pictures before I finish my run of 13.

In the meantime, I will resume in a couple of weeks when my vacation ends.

Nicole, you don't need a particularly big brain to play this game. In fact, it can be a hindrance... You can start seeing things that are only here, and not there. All you really need is one or more eyes. Anyways, it's still summer vacation around here, so relax, and we'll start up again as soon as ...

It's just a glazed earthenware plate.
Circa 1450, Northern Italian. (Possibly Ferrara?)

The now-dead people used to eat snacks from it while they played their game.
There is no evidence of anything else.


But this is a print game, not a plate game, so it doesn't matter.

INTERMEDIO This past round was more or less the midpoint of the game, so it is time for a brief interlude. While we wait, here is a picture of some now-dead people playing a game a long time ago. They didn't have the internet, so they had to play face-to-face. Things are different now. This is just ...

Print "A" Saint Michael Franconian(?) 1450-70 Associated with the S.*807c series of saints by Schreiber, but it is artistically and technically so much superior that it seemed best to describe it separately. The S.*807c series is described as among the crudest woodcuts of the 15th c., but ...