Hi, Alain, There was a conception inside the Church that begins in the XVIth century and continues to XIXth century that considers the Bagatella a great sin. It appears that there are some interesting sources cited. I look forward to an English translation. Some of us have long argued that entertain...

Hi, Mike, "There is admittedly some danger that iconology will behave, not like ethnology as opposed to ethnography, but like astrology as opposed to astronomy. There is, I am afraid, no other answer to this problem other than the use of historical methods tempered, if possible, by common sense...

Hi, Mike, I need to comment on a post of Michael's (http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=937&start=10#p13735), which I have a hard time understanding. Indeed. I showed how to start an analysis. I began at the beginning, and correctly identified one card. Is there a problem ther...

Hi, Ross, One important premise is whether the trump sequence can be interpreted on its own, as a sequence of images not necessarily part of a card game, or whether the order and icongraphy reflects some rules of the play itself, and can only be properly interpreted by reference to those rules. Mich...

I have offered a close reading of the iconography of the PMB Pope and the PMB Wheel Perhaps. The term "close reading" is commonly used for any form of extravagantly detailed analysis. That includes postmodern types of analysis in which some meaningful text is deconstructed (pieces taken o...

Hi, Bill,

OnePotato wrote:Congratulations Mr Hurst.
You've discovered Art History.

Welcome.

Thanks.

How about you?

Best regards,
Michael

Hi, Marco, Michael J. Hurst has published a whole gallery of Ranks of Men images in [url=http://pre-gebelin.blogspot.it/2013/02/gallery-ranks-of-mankind.html]... Thank you Michael: all those images deserve an accurate examination and much reflection. As with the Popess examples, I've posted dozens o...

Hi, Marco, Sorry for the misunderstanding. I had no idea which one you were referring to, so I followed Mike's lead. The fact that in the trumps each of the three ranks is represented by a couple (with the Popess specifically linked to the Pope) is something for which I have not yet seen a visual pa...

Hi, Marco, A few weeks ago, Michael Hurst published on his pre-gebelin blog a wonderful engraving that perfectly applies to the subject of the role of the Popess. I hope Michael will share with us his thoughts about it. It's a cool one, isn't it? This fragment combines several fairly common themes, ...

Hi, Marco, Lydgate is a great writer in terms of the substance of Tarot. Like Petrarch and like Boccaccio, whose Casibus he "translated" for the English, he wrote moral treatises which were popular and influential at the time but which are considered dreck according to modern sensibilities...