Huck wrote: The model of the 7 virtues helps to understand the Cary-Yale, where it is unavoidable, that cards are missing. .. you cannot assume, that Cary-Yale Tarocchi in all elements should be part of the PMB. I don’t think you understood my proposal laid out above regarding the historical develo...

Huck, In order for a series of subjects to be meaningful it needs to be contextually relevant to the historical period in which it emerges . This means 1440-1450 Florence or Milan. In Florence I can point to the seven virtues writ large on the campanile, baptistry doors, in frescoes in major churche...

Huck wrote: That there is only one virtue in the 14 cards, is not a problem, it's just a quality. My point is those 14 cards do not make a recognizable series of subjects . My theory on the other hand has the well-known seven virtues paired with exemplars or anti-types. I can explain why there are ...

Ross wrote: on 18 May 2010, 10:24 That's an interesting comparison, Mike. I have trouble imagining such a reversal of the meaning of the figure, though. The Cary Sheet Devil also looks nothing like this. Just conceptually, in order to imagine illustrations of Petrarch's Fama being the source for th...

Huck, I'll have to disagree with you on this point: "short after 1450: PMB is made by 2 painters, analysis of the closer conditions leads to the opinion, that the original form (only by one painter) had been 5x14. Totally there are 20 trumps, and the six added trumps look like a complete sub-sy...

Huck said: ...If the situation was so, that the 70-card-decks were part of this politeness, cause Trionfi was played with 70 cards still in Milan, then possibly the production of Petrecino also used this structure. ...Bianca Maria got in 1441 during her long visit in Ferrara the "14 figure&quo...

Huck, As usual, an interesting find and research on your part. To me the significance here is one more sign pointing towards Florence , where Petrocini da Firenze was obviously from. The question: was this deck, noted in the historical record on August 2nd, also of 70 cards like the deck specificall...

by Ross G. R. Caldwell on 21 Sep 2012, 16:23 Phaeded wrote: Not to lose sight of the key point here: Anghiari was a Medici triumphal celebration. If so, how was the allied Anghiari notary's trionfi deck not taking its cue from a Medici artistic precedent that followed the battle? Ross wrote: Unless...

..., also by Vasari, but the Hanging Man scene of 1440 is missing. Instead: In S. Miniato fra le Torri in Florence Andrea painted a panel containing the Assumption of Our Lady, with two figures; and in a shrine in the Nave a Lanchetta, without the Porta alia Croce, he painted a Madonna. In the hous...

Huck wrote: The participation of the Albizzi seems to be a minor detail (Piccinino worked mainly for Filippo Maria Visconti). On what report to do you base the importance of the Albizzi in this event? The only commissioned art we know about in connection with the Anghiari triumphal celebrations (al...