...to my eyes, if I look at such details as the non-blindfolded Justice, Fortune's Wheel, and usage of the additive form of Roman numerals, the clothing suggested on the Cavaliers (and others) and, importantly, the suggested heraldic devices, it is more reminiscent of late Mediæval than of Renaissance art in terms of its image... BUT, in terms of its completed sequence and its production (given the availability of paper mills and the like), a product of the Renaissance.

After all, even in the Renaissance many works still had qualities reminiscent of former times, as those woodcuts from various periods linked above by Steve show.

Thanks you very much for the links Steve !


* As I said earlier,France jumped the Renaissance and still having its Romanesque-Gothic art style during the renaissance period,which ignore.

France openly ignored the Renaissance Art period...
Going farthest : France did not know it.

I think Mr. James that both topics did not born at the hospital...


*Given my respect.

Regarding the XV card this image is from a Medieval miniature :

Mediæval individually crafted hand-painted miniatures and woodcuts have differences that can certainly be apparent, Eugim... I'm not sure what you're suggesting - though the image is of course highly interesting as it hints that a three-fold division of the 'Devil' as Satan (with face on belly), Lucifer (with wings) and Hell (with its huge mouth and tongue dangling).

I am suggesting JMD,that Tarot de Marseille has a clear french Medieval romanesque-gothic heritage.

* Here is for example the case of a devil with a face in his stomach,as you surely knows well,as seen at the Notre Dame Cathedral : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... eParis.jpg

As I've already made a comment on the other thread, I'll just post a link from here to there

Tarot de Marseille - Italian or French origin?