So people read that one pretty well! A few more details than the book. Thank you to SteveM for the additional in-depth background info. (I love that Sebastian Brandt has his own Dot Com!) The catalog entries are not particularly exhaustive. Thanks Marco, for holding off on your picture. Maybe you ca...

Marco, I appreciate your enthusiasm but to avoid confusion, it would probably be better to start a separate thread if you want to add other pictures. In the meantime: An Allegory of War and Peace. Basel, 1499 Two blocks, side by side. Fragmentary. Text below headline lacking. One other known copy, w...

Nicole wrote:I saw this late but how cool ! Way to go everyone

You can jump in at any time.
You don't have to do them all.
Same goes for anyone else.

Here is your next one:
It is a double.
Two blocks printed side by side.
Basel, 1499

Ok, I'll take that as a respectable reply to my questions.
You have looked at all of the surviving evidence, explained away discrepancies, and drawn the only reasonable conclusion, based upon that evidence.

Ok, I've voiced some questions and objections.
And nobody has really answered any of my specific points.
Other than a couple of broad dismissals.
Is that it?
Am I invalidated?

So what now?



PS- I never suggested anything about divination.

Very nicely done. I hope this doesn't disappoint people, as it is fairly brief, but here is a summary of the entry in the catalog: A Warning Against Playing At Dice Fragmentary sheet, sliced at right. Clearly a cautionary sheet. It is difficult to determine the identity of the foreground rider accos...

I'm OK with #1. Tarot was played as a game in the 15th century. Unless it's meant to be all-exclusive? Anyway, at #2 I diverge from the group. I disagree with #2 Tarot was invented to play a game. Of course there is plenty of circumstantial evidence to support this, but there is still plenty of room...

....Sounds like fun! Do I understand that this is a game in which we are to use our creative imagination and come up with a narrative to explain what is happening in the picture?.... I was looking for an interpretation based upon your best guesses/ideas of what the artist was intending to communica...

OK, here is round 1:
From Paris, circa 1500. ....and a detail: