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Re: Carnival collection

This is about the Cologne Tarock deck, compare ... http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=650 The text are partly taken from .. http://hss.ulb.uni-bonn.de/1999/0212/0212.pdf ... “Löblich wird ein tolles Streben, Wenn es kurz ist und mit Sinn” - KARNEVAL IN KÖLN, DÜSSELDORF UND AACHEN...

Re: Tarock of Cologne

The Cologne Tarock of c. 1847 has definitely some association to Olympic gods , mixed with some popular local figures (Father Rhine, Bauer, Agrippina). *********** Some new researches about Cologne Carnival lead to the result, that there had been a " Olympische Gesellschaft zu Köln " befor...

Carnival collection

In research of some question about carnival I found this representation of a scientific dissertation in a Karnevalsforum: http://www.karnevalistenforum.de/thread.php?threadid=537 ... Dissertation von Frohn, KARNEVAL IN KÖLN, DÜSSELDORF UND AACHEN 1823 – 1914 .. [Frohn, S. 26] Als problematisch stell...

Re: The Hanged Man

I open a new thread about carnival Where? I cant find it. .... I dont remember why, but when I read (many years ago) the Foucault's bock, I dont think the "ship of fools" exists out the literary or picture reality. .... In Italia seem usually use ships (as bucintoro) in the triumphal para...

Re: The Hanged Man

Thanks, Huck. Not sure whether to believe Foucault. Venice might be a better idea because of its longstanding connection with carnival. Due to their lack of roads they would have had a reason to use real ships in their celebrations. Well .. Foucault's book looked well researched, but's it's too lon...

Re: The Hanged Man

hi Al, The answer is not easy ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_and_Civilization Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, by Michel Foucault , is an examination of the ideas, practices, institutions, art and literature relating to madness in Western history. It is...

Re: The Hanged Man

The Ship of Fool book was written and published in Basel. One has to assume for this time (1494) a generally increasing interest in carnival. The Carnival of Basel (German: Basler Fasnacht) is the biggest carnival in Switzerland and takes place annually between February and March in Basel. It has be...

Re: The Wheel of Fortune

I dont read yet, but sem interesting: The book of fortune : two hundred unpublished drawings. Author: Jehan Cousin , Ludovic Lalanne , Imbert d' Anlezy http://www.archive.org/details/bookoffortunetwo00cous Literature http://books.google.es/books?id=PGWgSab3K_IC&lpg=PA19&ots=KnT2VD7x6I&d...

Re: The Hanged Man

I don't know, what the artist had in mind ... not each picture really refers to the text ... but ... :-) ... The ghost of Sebastian Brant definitely says NO to any alchemical relation ... http://a-tarot.eu/p/jan-11/narrschiff/alchemy.jpg Man spuert wol in der alchemy Und in des wynes artzeny Was fal...

Re: The Wheel of Fortune

This is from a fragmented version (fragmented by age). No, the picture is destroyed, the writing is at a second page below the picture page. Material to Fränkisches Losbuch http://www.bildindex.de/dokumente/html/obj00022941#|home Note: Not all pictures belong to the lot book. The lot book starts in ...

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