Thanks for starting the wonderful Compare and Contrast Robert - I'd been reading them over at AT, but they'll be easier to find here. I keep looking through these images - they seem so different from the style of the other Tarot de Marseille, softer, more feminine, the faces sweeter. Could we be loo...

This is fascinating Robert, thanks for these comparisons. I think it's possible that the missing line for the butt cheek on the Dodal simply broke off, but that straight vertical line directly above the animal's paws is very odd. In fact that whole area is a very strange arrangement of lines and col...

Huck wrote: .. :-) ... if you would be able to follow links, you would know, that the deck is estimated ca. 1790 by the owner, Deutsches Spielkartenmuseum Kaplan gives only the same single date of 1790 as Deutsches Spielkartenmuseum for Angelo Valla, yet a family cardmaking business could span poss...

Robert, I love your observations and comparisons. I wonder, can we date this deck with any accuracy? Where does it stand in the Tarot de Marseille chronology? And why all those carefully? placed red spots? The faces in this deck are sweeter than those of most other Tarot de Marseille too - perhaps t...

Fascinating, wonderfully expressive drawing. Humans in one image, animals in the other, as if the illustrator is pointing out a direct parallel, making a political statement. If so, is he comparing Charles IV to Reynard the fox, and who does the ram below the wheel, the donkey and the other fox(?) i...

's OK Huck, your link took me straight there, it's just that I felt compelled to read through the whole thread after visiting Trionfi. I hadn't too much time last night but will return later...

Pen

Huck wrote:

It was discussed short at

Thanks Huck, but I don't know about short - that's a heck of a long thread...

Pen

http://www.albideuter.de/html/lombardisch-trieste.html

These are simply lovely - must find out more about them.

Pen

Hello Lamort, She is rather reminiscent of Justice or the Force of Justice, yet the accompanying text (which was originally published without illustrations) reads: Ripa's Iconologia: Fortezza:STRENGTH A Woman in Armour; her Stature upright; big bon'd; plump Breasts; harsh Hair; sparkling Eyes; a Spe...

Marco wrote: This engraving is also very similar to the Visconti-Sforza Judgement, except that in the card God the Father appears instead of Christ. Why do you think that this image gives "extra weight to the argument that it would have been blasphemous to depict Christ on cards"? Hello M...