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Re: Iconographic *and* Historical Analysis ("methodology")

As I already earlier stated, I think, that Ur-Trionfi-deck had a 4x13-structure and it were usual playing cards. I'm not even sure what that means - 3 court cards of each suit substituted for a fifth, separate trionfi suit? That goes against the fact that every known trionfi deck not only has court...

Re: Iconographic *and* Historical Analysis ("methodology")

It was a game that had cheap, middle, and high-class examples, of which only the high-class have survived from early on. It's too bad Giusti's entry doesn't give us more to go on, whether his gift deck was to be hand painted or if some woodblocked production was simply having, say, a blank shield (...

Re: Panegyric of Bruzio Visconti by Bartolomeo da Bologn

Huck and Mike, You continue to cast your net far and wide, when the compelling evidence is the relationship of the CY to the PMB as products of the same medium and type - naibe a trionfi - from the same city, Milan. Everything else is of secondary consideration. Nothing is winged in the CY chariot a...

Iconographic *and* Historical Analysis ("methodology")

Given the paucity of information surrounding the creation of trionfi, all of our suppositions must necessarily fall short of whatever standard we choose, but frequent over-emphasis on iconographic analysis is coming up short in a variety of ways (and confused as historical analysis itself). The pass...

Re: Panegyric of Bruzio Visconti by Bartolomeo da Bologn

Naturally the bride traveled on a chariot as the celebrated person. And naturally the bride was connected to chastity. A ducal crown doesn't change that. Actually Bianca traveled down the Po in a boat to her wedding in 1441, but all events, Bianca is not a bride in the PMB, which no one dates befor...

Re: Panegyric of Bruzio Visconti by Bartolomeo da Bologn

I agree, that a change occurred, when the rider of the triumphal became male. It seems, that the Petrarca model influence on the card deck ceased with that. The 14 cards of PMB-1 are in agreement with the Petrarca model, the Charles VI changes the direction. The PMB has even less to do with Petrarc...

Re: Panegyric of Bruzio Visconti by Bartolomeo da Bologn

I agree that Chastity is less an issue in the PMB Chariot, as opposed to virtue generally (and likewise in the Florentine cards), but still see the winged white horses as those of Plato's Phaedrus , which propel the virtues in their courses, as opposed to some doubled Pegasus. Except contemporary p...

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