... A team of white elephants pulls a chariot in which the winged figure of Fame rides. Dressed in brocade and ostrich feathers, she sounds a trumpet, heralding the appearance of four famous men: two philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, and two rulers, Alexander ...

Cardini identifies the "bouquet of three ostrich feathers" as attached to Piero's horse. Then he says of Cosimo's horse that it, too, has Piero's emblems on it: Cosimo's horse also bears, on the vermilion breastplate, a frieze consisting ...

... I must have been mistaken. Thanks for pointing it out. But peacock is what Hibbert says. I didn't believe it, so I checked the picture. It's not ostrich feathers. They look vaguely like peacock feathers. He gives another example in Cosimo-sponsored art, but I haven't looked for it online. He ...

... I must have been mistaken. Thanks for pointing it out. But peacock is what Hibbert says. I didn't believe it, so I checked the picture. It's not ostrich feathers. They look vaguely like peacock feathers. He gives another example in Cosimo-sponsored art, but I haven't looked for it online. He ...

... supposedly stood for the virtues Cosimo most admired, fortitude, temperance, and prudence (p. 105). medici_e_ospitiDET.jpg I thought those were ostrich feathers. We discussed this a while back, in relation to the device and the three Medici colors. Added: yes, here ten years ago https://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?p=14479#p14479

... 40. The Earth. 41. Il Grembiule. 41. The Apron. 42. La Calamita. 42. The Magnet. 43. La Striglia. 43. The curry comb. 44. Lo Struzzo. 44. The Ostrich. 45. Il Guanto. 45. The Glove. 46. L'orcio, o colatoio del ranno. 46. ??The jar, or colander of the year. 47. Il Ghiaccio. Genero mia madre: ...

... from another sheet (group 3), now with more colors The sheets of group 3 have an interesting knight riding on a large bird ... an ostrich, as far one can recognize that. http://a-tarot.eu/7/x/knight-bird.jpg

... holds the open-mouthed head of some animal. The Cavallo of Coins is quite different: on the Budapest sheet, the knight appears to be riding an ostrich, whereas, in the Metropolitan Museum Tarot pack, he is mounted more conventionally on a horse, and holds one coin while another is at his horse's ...

... AMES LEWIS 126 128" Also : "The armorial device is that of Lorenzo de’ Medici’s father, Piero de’ Medici: a diamond ring with three ostrich feathers and a banderole with the motto SEMPER (forever). The device is much worn and the silver is oxidized. Piero de’ Medici married Lucrezia ...

... that were introduced to Medici imagery by Piero and were to become a staple of Medici family decoration: the diamond ring; the three colored ostrich feathers, signifying the three theological virtues, hope (green), faith (white), and charity (red); and the scroll inscribed with the motto ...