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Schwarzenegger Arm! I love it!

I think it is meant to be the puffy robe sleeve, not the guy's actual arm. But I don't know. Maybe this fella's been lugging around some big, heavy full editions of the Summa.


RaH

I clearly see the poorly drawn elbow on the Dodal monk, showing his hand to be in prayer position, as on the Noblet. The coloring is what confuses the image. I think the real question is, why doesn't the left-side monk on the Noblet have his hands together. Un-pious swine!! (If you look at the Noble...

Thanks for these Robert. I don't have the deck, yet now I do!!

I'm surprised Lo Scarbeo or US Games has not released this with the "missing" cards recreated by an artist. I guess the lack of 'feminine papi' would make it difficult to market.

RaH

Some general thoughts... Though crudely executed, the 'design' of these cards, how the figures are spaced, etc., is rather good I think. I get the impression of a 'classical' vibe to the images, the 'empty eyes', the hair of the man on the 'Lovers" card, the Sun especially. Fortitude and Justic...

Andy Pollett claims the sheets are from Ferrara and dates them around the year 1500 . If so, they'd be cousins to decks like the Alessandro Sforza , the Charles VI , the Ercole I d'Este , and the Rothschild Tarot . The World cards are all certainly similar - the ideal city contained within a sphere...

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x172/melanchollic_photos/DICK10.jpg http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x172/melanchollic_photos/DICK14.jpg I love this deck. Several fragments exist, one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dubbed the "Dick Sheet" (after Harris Brisbane Dick), and another...

. I think if we accept the notion that the Papesse and Empress were simply 'another' Pope, and 'another' Emperor, then following that logic, we might consider that perhaps at some point, the Juggler may have been simply another type of Fool. The Juggler on the Rosenwald sheet certainly suggests such...

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Why, I can almost hear the hooves of unicorns starting to rumble.


RaH

. An interesting possibility. The falling figures do resemble the "fall of idols", though they are usually depicted falling from a pedestal or pillar (and usually with the holy family doing a 'drive by' on an ass ;) ). Judging from the earliest known 'Tower' cards, the Estensi, the Italian...

. These days I'm leaning toward XVI as "purgatory". Certainly 'Towers' and 'Fire' fit., 'Lightning' less so. The symmetry is what I love - XV...............XVI...............XVII/XVIII/XVIIII..........XX...............XXI HELL......PURGATORY............INTERIM...........RELEASE.......HEAVE...