On the other hand, Kaplan also says that the fountain, which we see on the fronts of the male Lover and the Baton courts, is a Sforza device (this is also in his 1978 Encyclopedia vol. 1 p. 62). If so, that would make Batons, one of the two suits with weapons, a Sforza suit. It would make sense for...

Michael Hurst wrote: Therefore, knowing how subjects were routinely conflated in early Italian Tarot decks, and knowing the common significance of that attribute in Florentine art, when the triumphant figure on the World card shows that same attribute, the idea becomes inescapable that a fourth vir...

Ross, I'd also like to propose a terminal date for the PMB based on the Strength card, but first the fruits of your excellent article on this card: When Iohannis Angelus published Petrus de Abano’s images of the decans and degrees in his Astrolabium Planum in 1494, he depicted the 26th degree of Lib...

Michael and Ross, Michael wrote: I seriously doubt that anyone has offered MORE salient iconographic precedents to support their interpretations of Tarot than I have. Ask around. I have included a number of links in this thread, but I will not repeat 12 years of posts here. Precisely why I want to e...

All I've found on Borso/Soncino is in tertiary sources. Will let you know if I find more info; please do the same on the possible use of "triumphare" in the text of John of Rheinfelden.

Michael, I was hoping you’d be joining one of these threads (and hopefully Ross inputs some more himself). I agree with the iconographic program you outlined (especially applying the fruits of the Warburg school – more on that some other time), but there are inconsistencies within your “three sectio...

Huck wrote: Whenever a new object appears and it gets a new name, there will be persons, who knows the object and not the name, or persons, who know the name, but don't use it at special opportunities, cause they wish to be understood by others, who don't know the new name. A name innovation we can...

I wrote:... "The chess pieces are like rorschach blotches upon which you continue to map any number and order of themes ...", Huck wrote: ... but I would add, that this is a quality, which they have in common with Tarot symbols. Au contraire: Tarot are quite detailed paintings, albeit min...

Huck, You are avoiding the problem of why "Chastity" is holding out a coin. Neither chess nor Petrarch are going to explain that. But if the "Chariot" had a name in the original Florentine/"Anghiari" deck... Florentia : http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/...

BTW: I may have found a model for the CY female charioteer's odd headress: http://images2.bridgemanart.com/cgi-bin/bridgemanImage.cgi/400wm.DGA.6777150.7055475/514597.jpg http://a-tarot.eu/test/coin-at-chariot.jpg The male figure is a Magi from the Strozzi altarpiece painted by Gentile da Fabriano i...