Remember furthermore that in Roman times, the triumph was granted only to emperors. As we know from Ross Caldwell, in Ferrara there is this order of c. 1422, that people should play cards in the old fashion, not in the new one. And then there is the note in the same Ferrara 1423 with "VIII Imp...

My personal perspective is in short: Kaiserspiel or Karnöffel was invented at the Council of Constance (This is Huck’s idea at trionfi.com) [Council of Constance is a perfect place to invent the game due to several reasons, of which the main is the Evil Carnival of Basel 1376 and the pope being “be...

The first thing to notice is that the art historians use the "five-year rule," as being roughly close enough when a more precise date cannot be established. This has implications for the end of Giovanni's life, since he lived possibly as late as March 1438. We know he was commissioned, wit...

Here is the whole list of Sbaraglio's Regesto , simply giving the dates. I have analysed them into some different categories following the bare list. 01. 1415-1420 02. 1425-1430 03. 1425-1430 04. 1421 05. 1430 circa 06. 1425-1430 07. 1430 circa 08. 1415-1420 09. 1420-1425 10. 1420-1425 11. 1420-1425...

This thread is dedicated to bringing together images of the works of Giovanni di Marco, aka Giovanni dal Ponte, from the 1420s and 1430s, as well as discussion of their relationship to the Rothschild cards in the Louvre and the Knight of Swords in the civic museum of Bassano del Grappa. It should be...

And looking at that ball-playing fresco ago, presumably looking north, up the N-S oriented Lago Maggiore, that would also mean Arona would be on the left (SW corner of the lake), behind the hitter, and Angera on the right, where the three ladies are prepared to catch the ball in their dresses, almo...

I think it's reasonably clear that the Charles VI Emperor card was intended as a portrait of Sigismund, and the Visconti di Modrone Emperor probably also, but I had wondered whether the Rothschild Emperor could possibly be. The Rothschild Emperor certainly doesn't seem to resemble Sigismund as much...

But please explain, Huck, which Emperor were the d'Este trying to please in 1423 when supposedly "Ferrara wished to have a Duchy in Modena/Reggio and invented the Imperatori game to please the relevant emperors"? Not to answer for Huck, nor to support his theory, but I'd just point out th...

I'd suggest this urban fresco was to remind those in the city of the leisurely pursuits in the beauty of somewhere like the alpine lake of Lago Maggiore, where they may have had a villa or were invited as guests to the Visconti castle there (and as privileged guests celebrating that fact with a gam...

I get the suspicion, that one should be careful about this Würzburg note. Yes, it is right to be careful, of course. The evidence is thin, but from my perspective two features make it more likely than not, which I why I questioned your leaning to the side of doubt instead. The two facts that persua...