mmfilesi wrote:The emperor of the Brera-Brambilla, Cary-Yale and Pierport-Morgan tarot dont have crown. I think this is a important detail.
Yes, but the hat is rather similar for both persons (in the case, that Brera Brambilla and Cary-Yale show the same person).
Two articles about the crown of Lombardy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Crown_of_Lombardy
http://austria-lexikon.at/af/Wissenssam ... _Lombardei
The reports contradict a little bit, as it seems.
The crown of Lombardy was (or is) in Monza and Monza is a location on Milanese territory. The German article notes:
Durch die Krönung von Konrad III. (1093-1152) im Jahre 1128 war Monza zur norditalienischen Krönungsstadt geworden. Zunächst existierte die Eiserne Krone der Langobarden nur als Legende. Dann aber ließ Heinrich VII. (Kaiser 1298-1308) eine für Krönungen tatsächlich verwendbare eiserne Krone herstellen. Im 15. Jahrhundert bildete sich die „Dreikrönungslegende" heraus: Der Römische Kaiser habe drei Kronen zu empfangen: mit einer goldenen Krone würde er in Rom zum Kaiser gekrönt, mit einer silbernen in Aachen zum deutschen König und mit einer eisernen in Mailand zum italienischen König. Die dreifache Krönung sollte den Kaiser dem mit der Tiara, der dreifachen Krone, ausgestatteten Papst ebenbürtig machen. Erst 1530 wurde Karl V. durch Papst Klemens VII. in Bologna mit jenem Reif gekrönt, den wir heute die „Eiserne Krone der Lombardei" nennen. Er sollte der erste und letzte Römische Kaiser sein, der mit der lombardischen Krone gekrönt wurde.
According this a three-crowns-legend was formed during 15th century: silver crown, Aachen, German kingdom; iron crown, Monza, Lombardy; golden crown, Rome, Empire.
In 15th century Filippo Maria Visconti was the dominating man in Lombardy. Indeed he showed a special engagement in Monza before 1444 (the work of the Zavattari brothers in Monza), indeed in a time, when just the Cary-Yale Tarocchi might have been done. Also he engaged for Pavia, which had been a traditional place for the crowning ceremony.
Perhaps the "strange emperor hat" has a context in a projected reformation of the Lombardic crowning ritual?
Emperor Sigismondo was crowned 1431 in Milan (not Monza, not Pavia ?) ... Filippo Maria didn't participate.
At least at this picture (Sigismondo) the idea seems to be given to present some crowns above each other (Sigismondo also had been king of Hungary):
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Perhaps one should consider, that around the relevant time painters occasionally showed an interest in rather fantastic hats, for instance the Florentine Apollonio di Giovanni in his illustrations to the journey of Aeneas. For Lombardy possibly this had the background, that Milan engaged in a hat industry, as Rosanne earlier speculated during her research of the straw hat of the PMB magician.
Rosanne: straw hat
http://tarotforum.net/search.php?searchid=3107262
Apollonio di Giovanni
http://tarotforum.net/search.php?searchid=3107263
http://miniature.riccardiana.firenze.sb ... icerca.asp
type "Apollonio" in the field "miniatore"