Re: A definitive Medici marker on the CVI page of swords?
Posted: 02 Feb 2017, 17:43
Huck wrote:
... I don't know, what this "column" is good for (top of Love card)
Over 500 years of history in 78 cards
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Huck wrote:
... I don't know, what this "column" is good for (top of Love card)
More evidence for a Pazzi Conspiracy date for the CVI, as Sixtis IV was the pope behind it and the resulting war; a post of mine in the "A Palermo Empress for the "Alessandro Sforza"?" thread:Huck wrote:Looking for further hidden scriptures at the Charles VI was successless.
I found the following details interesting....
... of the 5 dead persons (2 cardinals, 2 kings, 1 pope) one king has a stigma (Death card)
As for the CVI Pope proper - a lot of arguments for Eugene IV but Eugene wore the triple tiara. The last Pope to wear the simple egg-shaped headdress without additional tiaras?But there is a curious detail no one has previously discussed in regard to the CVI Death card [actually Kate pointed it out in 2014]: Why is the pope's hand punctured with the stigmata? It is unprecedented before or since, and you will find no other depiction of a pope with the stigmata. But if it were meant to depict Sixtus, there would have to be a taunting reason by the Florentines, and indeed there is:
To wit: they portrayed Sixtus in a manner in which he violates his own bull. Actually kind of funny.In his bull Spectat ad Romani Pontificis providentiam (6 September 1472), Sixtus relates how some clerics in regions north of the Alps and elsewhere were painting images or preaching about certain female saints with the stigmata, especially Catherine [of Siena]. These images and sermons were produced without the consent and approval of the Apostolic See; but what was most objectionable was that such depictions put these saints on a par with Francis [Sixtus was a Franciscan]. (C. Muessig, “The Stigmata Debate in Theology and Art” in ed. C. Brusati, The Authority of the Word, 2011: 497).
Relevance:Under Boniface VIII (1294–1303) the hood of the regnum was lengthened and the circlet was greatly enriched with precious stones, while toward the end of his papacy a second circlet was added. The increased length had the symbolical meaning of dominion of the una sancta ecclesia over the earth, and demonstrated the meaning of the papal unam sanctum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_tiara
Dante, particularly because of Landino (whose commentary on the Comedia would be released during the Pazzi war in 1481, had a resurgence under Lorenzo. The Florentines surely saw Sixtus IV aggrandizing schemes to find fiefs for his nephews and expand the Papal dominions as an echo of Boniface VIII. The latter retroactively shown before he added the triple tiara (in the case of the CVI depicting the pope without the additional tiaras would visually strip him of Boniface's claims to have temporal power over the empire):Pope Boniface VIII: Circle 8, Inferno 19
Boniface, for Dante, is personal and public enemy number one. Benedetto Caetani, a talented and ambitious scholar of canon law, rose quickly through the ranks of the church and was elected pope, as Boniface VIII, soon after the abdication of Pope Celestine V in 1294. (There were rumors that Boniface had intimidated Celestine into abdicating so he could become pope himself.) Boniface's pontificate was marked by a consolidation and expansion of church power, based on the view--expressed in a papal bull (Unam sanctam)--that the pope was not only the spiritual head of Christendom but also superior to the emperor in the secular, temporal realm. Dante, by contrast, firmly held that the pope and emperor should be co-equals with a balance of power between the pope's spiritual authority and the emperor's secular authority. Boniface's political ambitions directly affected Dante when the pope--under the false pretense of peace-making--sent Charles of Valois, a French prince, to Florence; Charles' intervention allowed the black guelphs to overthrow the ruling white guelphs, whose leaders--including Dante, in Rome at the time to argue Florence's case before Boniface--were sentenced to exile. Dante now settles his score with Boniface in the Divine Comedy by damning the pope even before his death in 1303 (the journey takes place in 1300): in the pit of the simonists, Pope Nicholas III, who can see the future (like all the damned), mistakenly assumes that Dante is Boniface come before his time (Inf. 19.49-63).
??? Really? There are several pope cards with stigmata aren't there? (Off the top of my head - the Paris, the Geofroy?)*Why is the pope's hand punctured with the stigmata? It is unprecedented before or since, and you will find no other depiction of a pope with the stigmata.
Steve,SteveM wrote:??? Really? There are several pope cards with stigmata aren't there? (Off the top of my head - the Paris, the Geofroy?)Why is the pope's hand punctured with the stigmata? It is unprecedented before or since, and you will find no other depiction of a pope with the stigmata.
You probably missed my PS above; reposted here:Huck wrote: Do we have any clear - and older - Italian pope with stigmata?
The image is large so I'm leaving it in the link (unless you want to cut paste the gloves detail). That work has polemical overtones so not sure how to judge it, and again, the lack of red is problematic. A much later image of papal gloves with the 'radiate' nimbus about the Franciscan IHS:Nothing here regarding papal liturgical gloves and the stigmata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_gloves: "The back of the glove was always ornamented, sometimes with an embroidered medallion or some other form of needlework, sometimes with a metal disk having on it a representation of the Lamb of God, a cross, the Right Hand of God, Saints etc., the disk being sewn on to the glove, or, at times, the ornamentation was of pearls and precious stones." Unquestionably the most relevant image is this from the 2nd quarter of the 15th century of Eugene IV with what looks like the "metal disk" or "embroidered medallion" of the radiate sun one sees around Francis's 'IHS" symbol. Granted there is no additional detail in the center, but if stigmata was being indicated then surely in a colorful manuscript such as this the color red would have been applied, as it was on the almost monochrome Geofroy Pope: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminated ... llID=51703
Thanks.Huck wrote:
For the researched picture (Eugen) ...
https://www.newcriterion.com/cm/images/ ... ZbAhHY.jpg