a Lo Scheggia cassone
Posted: 11 Feb 2013, 07:26
In this post I am going to focus on one cassone, attributed to Lo Scheggia, otherwise Giovanni di Ser Giovanni Guidi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_d ... anni_Guidi). He is of special interest because he is a tarot card painter documented by Pratesi, http://trionfi.com/naibi-on-sale. I described the cassone in my previous post. Carandente, 1963, has very detailed pictures; he attributed it to the "master of the Adimari," because of its similarity to the Adimari chest depicting a wedding First I give the color Triumphs downloaded from the Web, then Caradente's images. There are only four surviving Triumphs: Love, Death, Fame, and Eternity. I haven't seen any of these images on Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:I_Trionfi.
First, the Triumph of Love. The three couples in front of the chariot remind me of the Charles VI Love card:
in color, from http://www.niceartgallery.com/Giovanni- ... 04-74.html
And in black and white, from Carandente. The first is as above, the second is the people following the chariot, four couples, the woman's hairdo comparable to that in the Adimari chest, according to Carandente (a c. 1450 depiction of what is probably a 1420 wedding):
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N31eTfCc_JI/U ... riLove.JPG
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wyFiP62umI8/U ... midazo.JPG
Next, the Triumph of Death.
First, from from http://www.niceartgallery.com/Giovanni- ... 04-74.html
Then Carandente. He only has what is in front of the chariot.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DcCKWLnsrh0/U ... oDeath.JPG
Next, the Triumph of Fame:
First, from http://www.niceartgallery.com/Giovanni- ... 04-74.html
And Carandente, who has the front in black and white, and the back in color. I find this one very interesting, and the reason why only shows up in the Carandente version. I'll discuss it in another post.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uVDjlYU4tKc/U ... midazo.JPG
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8XzC2Go_az4/U ... meBack.JPG
Finally, Eternity, very different from usual. Carandente doesn't reproduce this one at all:
First, from http://www.niceartgallery.com/Giovanni- ... 04-74.html
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZyqpDBTNDZY/U ... 514DET.jpg
First, the Triumph of Love. The three couples in front of the chariot remind me of the Charles VI Love card:
in color, from http://www.niceartgallery.com/Giovanni- ... 04-74.html
And in black and white, from Carandente. The first is as above, the second is the people following the chariot, four couples, the woman's hairdo comparable to that in the Adimari chest, according to Carandente (a c. 1450 depiction of what is probably a 1420 wedding):
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N31eTfCc_JI/U ... riLove.JPG
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wyFiP62umI8/U ... midazo.JPG
Next, the Triumph of Death.
First, from from http://www.niceartgallery.com/Giovanni- ... 04-74.html
Then Carandente. He only has what is in front of the chariot.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DcCKWLnsrh0/U ... oDeath.JPG
Next, the Triumph of Fame:
First, from http://www.niceartgallery.com/Giovanni- ... 04-74.html
And Carandente, who has the front in black and white, and the back in color. I find this one very interesting, and the reason why only shows up in the Carandente version. I'll discuss it in another post.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uVDjlYU4tKc/U ... midazo.JPG
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8XzC2Go_az4/U ... meBack.JPG
Finally, Eternity, very different from usual. Carandente doesn't reproduce this one at all:
First, from http://www.niceartgallery.com/Giovanni- ... 04-74.html
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZyqpDBTNDZY/U ... 514DET.jpg