Re: Fame riddle
Posted: 21 Nov 2011, 05:57
As to the relative dates of the Vievil, Noblet, and Tarot de Paris, Flornoy says of the Noblet,
Does that at all suggest that they had the same publisher around the same time?
And surely Love's backdrop could as well be a sunburst as a cloud. In the Milanese tarot, there were lots of sunbursts. Although drawn differently, it was a device of the Sforza ,and before them the Visconti, A cloud is only natural if you've been looking at the Charles VI. Who knows what they were looking at, or thinking of, in 17th century Paris? A sunburst is perfectly natural--Love's power, indeed Love himself, springs from the supernal sun, said the Chaldean Oracles, that wellspring of the prisca theologia, in at least some of its editions printed before 1600, And the Christian god of love, Jesus, materializes from God the Father. Both members of the Trinity were symbolized by that heavenly body.
He then gives pictures: http://www.tarot-history.com/Jean-Noble ... age-2.htmlThe back of the cards exactly conforms to the design employed by Viéville. The same motif occurs on the back of the Anonyme Parisien tarot (cat. n° 33).
Does that at all suggest that they had the same publisher around the same time?
And surely Love's backdrop could as well be a sunburst as a cloud. In the Milanese tarot, there were lots of sunbursts. Although drawn differently, it was a device of the Sforza ,and before them the Visconti, A cloud is only natural if you've been looking at the Charles VI. Who knows what they were looking at, or thinking of, in 17th century Paris? A sunburst is perfectly natural--Love's power, indeed Love himself, springs from the supernal sun, said the Chaldean Oracles, that wellspring of the prisca theologia, in at least some of its editions printed before 1600, And the Christian god of love, Jesus, materializes from God the Father. Both members of the Trinity were symbolized by that heavenly body.