Thanks for the reference. I've looked through all these Petrarch's Trionfi images. I notice that the manuscript illuminations are all by Italians, while the printed works are almost all by Germans. I thought an exception was the six prints associated with the name Bernardino Rizus de Novara, but the...

I see where I caused the confusion: I've been avoiding "tarot" since that is another country and another century, and saying "trionfi" instead, and sometimes I capitalized it wrongly (influenced I suppose by all the people who capitalize "Tarot" for no very good reason)...

Thank you for your kind remarks; my gender is male -- I've had this problem all my life, it comes with the name. As to: One question, Sandy: why do you think the imagery of Petrarch's Trionfi is more 1410ish than 1440ish? And why 1410ish rather than late 1420ish, which seems well within the bounds o...

The VS star card (which if I recall is one of the replacement ones), is indeed quite similar to the Venus in Padua. When I look up that artist, Guariento di Arpo, on Google images, I find a Moon and Sun from that same church which are also evocative, and a collection of angels which seem very Trionf...

The astrological theories of the time certainly provide an interesting place to look for connections. Here, I only want to point out another work by the painter of the Triumph of Venus birth tray, a marriage chest, shown in a page of Christie's https://www.christies.com/features/A-collection-of-Tusc...

This is my first action on tarothistory.com, and having found a button labeled “reply” I clicked it, but perhaps I am replying to the wrong thing. What I am trying to reply to is this quote: Towards the middle of the fifteenth century, the trays showed a change in the cultural situation that departs...