I don't think that irreverence has anything to do with possible 'objections', nor that such an image may be 'ridiculous', bit rather that the context of the image in its development sees NOT any similarities between penis and cloth-folds until the (roughly) mid-18th century, and that with those Tar...

I have noted elsewhere similar plays in medieval poems such as in the Romance of the Rose... If the context of finding inter-textual references in a 'moralised' game to popular and widespread texts such as the Romance of the Rose seems 'far-fetched'; and that it is mistaken to seek and find cross r...

I'd be grateful for a Spanish speaking member to give a summary, if not a whole translation, of these excerpts. They concern four examples from the first half of the 17th century. I have inserted the place of origin and/or activity of the women, date of the trial, and the sentence of the tribunal. ...

Just so as to give due credit where due credit it due... it was not I, but OP who said: [...]In Europe the sphinx is a symbol for wisdom. If you want that at the top of your wheel of fortune, I guess you can ignore what I said above. My apologies, have edited post to correct. The sphinx indeed has ...

Taken as a symbol of cleverness, or wisdom as OP suggests, then it does not ‘fit’ with the wheel of fortune, whose creatures are meant to represent man’s bestiality in the absence of virtue and as a plaything of fate and fortune; and which such as the ape or ass are generally associated with ignora...

Also, if nothing else, the Griffin just seems too noble and monogamous a creature to be attached to the Wheel of Fortune with other creatures associated with ignorance, folly and mutability; the sphinx is simply a more cognate concept. According to Camoin the figure is a sphinx, which he takes (I a...

Some have suggested that as the creature taken for a sphinx in some decks hasn't got 'boobs' it cannot be a sphinx. The French Sphinx of the Mannerist school popular in the 16th century certainly did like to emphasise the breasts. Not all images of the sphinx however show boobs. The main identifying...

Help ! * I can t access to M. Hurst wonderful notice books. -Anyone can helps me ??? Message in a bottle. Do you mean his blog? He has made it invite only, trying asking him for an invite. Or do you mean his old tarot notebook site, I don't know about that as can't access it from here, geocities is...

Triumphs are a genre of the period, within which Petrarch is an influential exemplar, but not an orignator (nor the only exemplar); even in the genre of the triumph of love he is not unique, but follows within the classical model of Ovid. So while the tarocchi and Petrarch are within the genre of th...

Looks like a sceptre in one hand and shield with dove and banner in other - if I remember correctly don't these somehow link in with the colours of the suits (emblems in the textiles of the court card figures). A dove may connect her with venus in an ovidian triumph of love type thing, or just be a ...