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SteveM

Re: Jean Noblet Tarot

In addition, I should perhaps add here that Mark Filipas, in his Alphabetic Masquerade , mentions the FOX in connection with this card. What sort of fox would that be? שועל(fox) : שועל החולות Vulpes rueppelli פנק Vulpes zerda שועל מצוי Vulpes vulpes שועל הכף Vulpes chama שועל צוקים Vulpes cana שועל...

Forum: The Exhibition Gallery
Topic: Jean Noblet Tarot
Replies: 30
Views: 73705
12 Apr 2009, 11:00
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SteveM

Re: Vieville :It is really a reversed deck ?

The temperance in the Vandenborre however, that is of the same type, has the figure facing the same way, that and the numbering would suggest it is only the writing, and not the whole figure, that has been reversed.

Forum: The Exhibition Gallery
Topic: Vieville :Is it really a reversed deck ?
Replies: 56
Views: 49087
11 Apr 2009, 10:33
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SteveM

Re: The Tarot de Paris (The Parisian Tarot)

I'm hoping to find more information about the "Chair of St Peter" or sometimes known as the "Throne of St Peter", I've found art which has similar types of figures carved on the chair of the Pope, which I suspect may be supposed to imply this special chair for the pope. Apparent...

Forum: The Exhibition Gallery
Topic: The Tarot de Paris (The Parisian Tarot)
Replies: 113
Views: 162393
11 Apr 2009, 09:10
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SteveM

Re: The Tarot de Paris (The Parisian Tarot)

EUGIM wrote:Hello Steve and nice to see you again.
Helps me but what is the link here with the sphinx ?

The Paris Pope is looking down at the sphinx sitting down at his side:

Forum: The Exhibition Gallery
Topic: The Tarot de Paris (The Parisian Tarot)
Replies: 113
Views: 162393
11 Apr 2009, 03:51
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SteveM

Re: The Tarot de Paris (The Parisian Tarot)

Here is the Tarot de Paris Pope: http://www.tarothistory.com/wp-content/gallery/tarot-de-paris/05.jpg Would someone else be kind enough to start this off by describing the details of the Tarot de Paris Pope that they find interesting? What is the relevance of the sphinx? In his lecture on psalm 119...

Forum: The Exhibition Gallery
Topic: The Tarot de Paris (The Parisian Tarot)
Replies: 113
Views: 162393
11 Apr 2009, 03:34
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SteveM

Re: The World - Bless my Soul

In visconti we have kingdom, bride and crown of the bridegroom/king/christ. (maybe?) As the soul is the bride of Christ, so the City / Kingdom is the bride of the King and the Holy City the New Jerusalem / platonic ideal city (the two concepts conflated at the time by the platonic humanists of the S...

Forum: The Unicorn Terrace
Topic: The World - Bless my Soul
Replies: 15
Views: 19673
08 Aug 2008, 07:10
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SteveM

Re: Talking just about Numerals here.

"...in 13th century Paris a worthless fellow or good for nothing was called a 'cifre en algorisme, that is, an 'arithmetical nothing.'

Ifrah - Universal History of Numbers.

Forum: The Unicorn Terrace
Topic: Talking just about Numerals here.
Replies: 33
Views: 36666
24 Jul 2008, 23:42
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SteveM

Re: The Most Beautiful Deck in the World?

I love the work of Mitelli in general.

Some entries on Mitelli in Giornale Nuovo:

http://www.spamula.net/blog/archives/000494.html

http://www.spamula.net/blog/archives/000480.html

http://www.spamula.net/blog/archives/000437.html

Forum: The Exhibition Gallery
Topic: The Most Beautiful Deck in the World?
Replies: 22
Views: 39659
20 Jun 2008, 22:07
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SteveM

Re: The Renaissance Folk Tarot

debra wrote:Just here to express my appreciation for this thread.
I don't know about that plate, Robert. Seems a bit...overblown, maybe.

I love it ... Great example of the periods interest in optical illusion:
http://rhetoricaldevice.com/GiuseppeArcimboldo.html

Forum: The Exhibition Gallery
Topic: The Renaissance Folk Tarot
Replies: 11
Views: 16159
20 Jun 2008, 08:47
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SteveM

Re: Loggerheaded dunces and the (geneological) tree of life:

In the earliest extent rules of the game the term "Tarot" relates specifically to the seven cards XXI, 0, I and the four Kings. I & XXI represent the 21 generations from God to Abraham; Four Kings represent the 56 from Abraham to Jesus. 0 Mat - the 'trunk' or 'mast' of the tree or 'ta...

Forum: The Exhibition Gallery
Topic: Dating the François Chosson Tarot?
Replies: 150
Views: 171573
16 May 2008, 20:26
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