Marcei wrote:I am sorry that this seems to be such a touchy thing for people

OK, given the topic you just set-up about a thousand jokes, but I will refrain myself.

Michael, LOL -- does that clarify or obscure? Ha! Ha! Ha! It certainly clarifies. This specific part answered my question: But as Temperance per se she reminds one of Faith, i.e., faith in resurrection as expressed by St. Paul (quoting Isaiah): "If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for merely hum...

Hi, Robert, Okay... among the three Moral Virtues usually depicted in Tarot, Tarot de Marseille's Temperance is alone in being winged. It is this context that makes her wings so interesting, along with the context that only in Tarot de Marseille does Temperance 1) have wings and 2) triumph over Dea...

Yes, great image Jean-Michel. Thanks for posting it. I am sure there is no need to mention this, since most of the members here are familiar with Michael Hurst’s blog, but recently he made couple of post on this very same topic: http://pre-gebelin.blogspot.com/2009/03/allegory-of-lords-mercy.html ht...

Hello all, I just want to share a Fool image I found by chance this week. It is on the cover of Amy Lemmon book of poems “Saint Nobody”. She kindly referred me to the image’s source. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3338/3453947800_be0c63995d_o.jpg The information about the image is here: http://nla.g...

Thanks OnePotato. Now, you wrote: I think that visual language "worked" differently than today's written language, so that the "structure" of thought was different. I believe it was non-linear... The trouble with the modern quest for consistency is that it was not deemed necessar...

I think they knew what they were looking at, and they knew what was important, and they knew what didn't matter to the subject at hand. Thanks OnePotato, As Robert, I also agree with what you are saying, and I also wondered about that paragraph. When I was teaching visual communication and graphic ...

Do these add to the possibility that many of the images from the Vieville are 'reversed' in relation to the image originally drawn? I personally suspect that this is indeed the case, as it is also, incidentally, for many other cards in other decks. Sorry Jean-Michel but your meaning is not clear to...

It took another's eyes and imagination for the backpack to become a monkey, and for a whole new set of iconographic images of the bateleur and the monkey to become known to me. Now I have him as a major part of my concept of the Bateleur. Robert, Do you know about the Gadawan Kura ? You may like th...

I do not consider that it is a monumental change, but a peculiar and mainly pertinent detail in this topic… Sometimes the small details hide great answers, and I do not only talk about the tarot. Sure. In fact your examples are great to see how similar the images from all these decks are, and how c...