... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Petrarch-triumphs-zanobi-1465-1.jpg From a cassone attributed to the school of Mantegna - http://www.rosscaldwell.com/images/triumphs/petrarch/samsonmantegna.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Petrarch%27s_triumphs#/media/File:Petrarch-mantegna-a-1460s.jpg ...

... depiction of a watery elemental corruption of the halo - but that would seem rather out there, allegorically-speaking. But compare this detail of Mantegna's battle of the sea-gods engraving, fairly contemporary (Baldini's fish-tail would be a crude approximation of a such a pagan "sea-god" ...

... Phyllis Williams Lehmann dates it to c. 1420, north Italy, Padua. (“The Sources and Meanings of Mantegna’s Parnassus”, in Karl and Phyllis Williams Lehmann, eds., Samothracian Reflections: Aspects of the Revival of the Antique . Princeton UP, 1973.) ...

... an erection I see on the person in question (your blow-up of the fig. 67 image), that is convincing enough. The main source of the imagery of the Mantegna, I thought, was the Libellus, of which one version is Seznec's fig. 70, from Bodl. Rawlinson B. 214. It has the rooster, and Argus with his ...

... including Boccaccio, since this Cyriac of Ancona "canonical" form, as it appears in a host of illustrations like the E Series (Pseudo-Mantegna) came later. Here is an article on the Cyriac Hermes, see all of the illustrations at the end. http://saprat.ephe.sorbonne.fr/media/bf5116d13db71b69be07428b70e2f92b/camenae-10-7-ilaria-pierini.pdf ...

... pillar ; Judgment/Angel is trumpet over graves, not a city. The AP has both broken pillar and lion (as does, for example, fortitude in the "Mantegna" prints). Viéville's numbers are in Susio's order, while Noblet's numbers are in Catelin Geofroy's order, also used by the Anonymous Parisian. ...

... We have, that a lot of decks are very different to each other. Boiardo Tarocchi poem, Sola Busca, Guildhall, Goldschmidt, Michelino deck, Mantegna Tarocchi ... all are different models. If we would have more cards from the time, ...

... as Apollo is added to the nine muses fill out a row of ten in the Tarocchi di Mantegna. This eighth figure added to the seven virtues should be a woman, as the virtues are, ...

... authority in medieval society, secular and ecclesiastical, the Magician doesn't fit. Nor does the "Stations of Man", like the tarot of Mantegna, quite fit, because there is nothing in the middle, and the bottom should be occupied by a craftsman or laborer. People advancing the "three ...

... halo, typical for especially Florentine virtues. In the Cary-Yale Tarocchi is a card, which was taken by Stuart Kaplan as "World" ... was used of a card in an early trionfi deck. The colored Tarocchi de Mantegna pictures I see in the next post are better than any I've ever seen, ...