Hi Mike,

I've addressed some of your points in the Chariot iconography thread at
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=390&p=5263#p5263

since they are focused on the Chariot and not Bologna or the 5x14 discussion.

And then there is the Chariot. The CY has one woman on top and one groom (below left). The Ursino has two grooms, but with a front view. The "Ferrara single card" has five women on top and a groom on each horse (http://trionfi.com/0/j/d/ferrasingle/). The PMB has no groom, and explicitly ...

The Fall of Bologna and the Bentivoglio was very fresh at carnival 1507 ... what mean the 4 moors? The four Moors didn't come into the Bolognese decks until 1725. The replacement of the 'Papi' by 'Mori' came about in 1725 by the intervention of the Papal Legate, Cardinal Ruffo. At that time, Bologn...

The printer of the Germini of 1553 is a *very* nice coincidence with the Michelangelo legend. Here is what I have for it: "Charles de Brosses (1709-1777), writing from Rome in 1739-40, is the earliest witness I have found to the legend, sometimes met, that Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) in...

Can we draw any conclusions from these images? At least one - these King-Mages were NOT the inspiration for the Bolognese Star card. Well ... would be nice to know the precise circumstances, when the chapel got the name ... in which political situation, which was often changing in Bologna. Bologna ...

Do you've any pictures in churches of Bologna, which focus the theme around this time? Generally it's said, that Bologna worked into dependency of Florence after it it took Sante as regent. Cosimo/Piero set a big sign with their family chapel, there was even a 3 Magi triumphal activity in Florence ...

... well, I'm interested to learn about your theory ... but it also seems, that you've had many detailed discussions with Michael, which I naturally do not understand, cause I didn't participate. I didn't think you'd be interested since you don't accept the most basic premise - that the 22 trumps w...

... the interpretation is not entirely different from what I was thinking of when I began writing Antonio da Rho's invention of the game for Bianca Maria. I understand, Antonio da Rho's invented "the" [or a] game for Bianca Maria. When? Where? What game? No, this is a fictional scenario i...

Philine Helas, in Lebende Bilder in der Italischen Festkultur des 15. Jahrhunderts discusses this one (you can read most of the pages at Google Books - http://books.google.fr/books?id=I2cmOhINFiUC&pg=PA146&dq=%22lebende+bilder%22+%2Bpesaro#v=onepage&q=%20%2Bpesaro&f=false ) I haven't...

Hi Michael, and Huck (if you are still interested), So this is a totally new interpretation, unrelated to the one we discussed many times since January 2007? So, you've not only thrown out the actual meaning of the Bolognese Star card, (which any eight-year old in a Sunday school class could correct...