Here are her comparisons. First, to Love (and I have added the Tower, on the right) Chariot Fool: Angels: Adding to these, Elisabetta Gnigniera has drawn attention to an upside down jester on a fragment of a chest now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford,À mon avis, le jeu de la BnF présente des affinités avec les œuvres réalisées par Apollonio di Giovanni vers 1460 ou peu après, et peut-être confronté notamment avec son activité dans le domaine de l'illustration de livres. Les types et les physionomies des personnages (les formes carrées entourées d'un trait épais, les bouches rouges proéminentes, l'expressivité accentuée) font écho à ceux peints par Apollonio dans son manuscrit enluminé le plus fastueux, qui contient les trois poèmes de Virgile (les BucoIiques, les Géorgiques et l’Enéid) 31. À titre d'exemple, citons les dames du cortège figuran sur la carte de l'Amoureux, identiques aux élégantes du manuscrit virgilien (f. 7zr) (fig. 9), le soldat debout sur le Chariot peu différent de la représentation d'Achille traînant le corps d'Hector (f. 70r) (cat,25, fig. 10), et les [start p. 121] jeunes gens se moquant du Fou qui rappellent le serviteur visible au premier plan du Banquet de Didon (f. 75r) (fig. 6,11) 32. Les comparaisons peuvent s'étendre à un autre manuscrit des Triomphes de Pétrarque peint par Apollonio 33. Parmi les nombreuses analogies que l'on peut relever, on notera la similitude entre les visages des anges musiciens avec le tuba du Jugement et ceux de l'enluminure du Triomphe de l'Eternité (f. 46r) (fig. 7, 12) 34.
Le peintre des cartes à jouer est vraisemblablement un collaborateur d'atelier. Les ressemblances avec le jeu Rothschild, et surtout avec l'exemplaire de Catane et Palerme, montrent que le partage de techniques et de modèles était pratique courante parmi les artistes du borgo Santi Apostoli. À cet égard, on peut supposer que Marco del Buono (associé de Lo Scheggia, puis d'Apollonio) fut une figure clé de l'organisation du travail en qualité d'intermédiaire entre les différents peintres.
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31. Florence, Bîblioteca Riccardiana, Ricc. 492.
32. Lazzi 2006, p.44-51; Labriola 2012, p. 105, fig. 76-77, 112. Le manuscrit virgilien fut signé par le copiste florentin « Nicolaus Riccïus Spinosus « c'est-a-dire Niccolà de' Riccî.
33. Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, Ricc. 1129.
34. Le manuscrit Ricc. 1129 a été rapproché de la commande du Florentin Agnolo di Lorenzo della Stufa, riche marchand et fidèle allié des Médicis, entre 1459 et 1461: Callmann 1974, p. 35-36, 58, note 3. Son écriture a été attribuée au copiste anonyme «de l'Eusèbe de Barcelone. » Voir de la Mare 1985a, I, p. 541.
(In my opinion, the BnF deck has affinities with the works produced by Apollonio di Giovanni around 1460 or shortly after, and perhaps in particular with his activity in the field of book illustration. The types and physiognomies of the figures (the square shapes surrounded by a thick line, the prominent red mouths, the accentuated expressiveness) echo those painted by Apollonius in his most sumptuous illuminated manuscript, which contains the three poems of Virgil (the Bucolics, the Georgics and the Aeneid) 31. For example, let us cite the ladies of the procession appearing on the card of the Lovers, identical to the elegant ones of the Virgilian manuscript (f. 72r) (fig. 9), the soldier standing on the Chariot not very different from the representation of Achilles dragging the body of Hector (f. 70r) (cat. 25, fig. 10), and the [start p. 121] young people mocking the Fool, reminiscent of the servant visible in the foreground of Dido's Banquet (f. 75r) (fig. 6, 11). 32 The comparisons can be extended to another manuscript of Petrarch's Triumphs painted by Apollonio. 33 Among the many analogies that can be noted, we note the similarity between the faces of the musician angels with the trumpet in the Judgment and those in the illumination of the Triumph of Eternity (f. 46r) (fig. 7, 12). 34
The painter of the playing cards was likely a workshop collaborator. The similarities with the Rothschild deck, and especially with the Catania and Palermo copy, show that the sharing of techniques and models was common practice among the artists of the Borgo Santi Apostoli. In this regard, we can assume that Marco del Buono (associate of Lo Scheggia, then of Apollonio) was a key figure in the organization of the work as an intermediary between the different painters.
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31. Florence, Bîblioteca Riccardiana, Ricc. 492.
32. Lazzi 2006, p.44-51; Labriola 2012, p. 105, fig. 76-77, 112. The Virgilian manuscript was signed by the Florentine copyist “Nicolaus Riccïus Spinosus” that is to say Niccolà de' Riccî.
33. Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, Ricc. 1129.
34. The manuscript Ricc.1129 has been linked to the commission of the Florentine Agnolo di Lorenzo della Stufa, a wealthy merchant and faithful ally of the Medici, between 1459 and 1461: Callmann 1974, pp. 35-36, 58, note 3. Its handwriting has been attributed to the anonymous copyist "of the Eusebius of Barcelona." See de la Mare 1985a, I, p. 541.
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the ... men-141641 Against these comparisons it might be said that these features are found elsewhere in art of these times: the women of the Schifanoia and elsewhere, red lips in a Liber iurium et privilegiorum notoriorum Bononeia (MS 644, fol. 4r, Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna), condottiere just as similar elsewhere. Gnigniera, in the same article in which she finds similarity to Apollonio, also finds these and other similarities, especially in the clothing, with Emilian designs. (It is in the book that Andrea and I edited.) However, the connection to the Catania cards via Marco is a good argument, too, and the fact that so many comparisons can be made, which separate him from Lo Scheggia.
Apollonio di Giovanni has been mentioned as a possible/probable painter of the "Charles VI" cards on THF since 2009 (just search "Apollonio" and go to the end of the citations found). However, it is indeed important to indicate that it is only the workshop that is being identified.
Labriola goes on to note that woodcuts for trionfi cards in Florence are first seen in the Rosenwald:
So I don't know what signs of woodcuts you find on any of these Florentine hand-painted cards, as opposed to painted black lines.À la fin du XV siècle, les 72 cartes - dont 21 atouts - imprimées de la National Gallery of Art de Washington (cat.21 figurant sur trois feuilles de papier non découpées, marquent symboliquement l'avènement d'une nouvelle époque 38. À Florence, la réalisation xylographique des cartes à jouer n'allait pas tarder à l'emporter. Le temps des luxueux trionfi dorés, dessinés et peints à la main, touchait à sa fin.
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38. Sur les tarots Rosenwald de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, voir Depaulis 1984, no. 27; Dummett 1993, p.241-252; Fiorini 2006, p. 59-61.
(At the end of the 15th century, the 72 cards—including 21 trump cards—printed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington (cat. 21), appearing on three uncut sheets of paper, symbolically marked the dawn of a new era. 38 In Florence, the woodcut production of playing cards was soon to prevail. The era of luxurious gilded trionfi, drawn and painted by hand, was coming to an end.)
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38. On the Rosenwald Tarot decks in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, see Depaulis 1984, no. 27; Dummett 1993, pp. 241-252; Fiorini 2006, pp. 59-61.