A Pool Of Cards

Well,
Roman heroes (as in Sola-Busca)
Stoic Passions, (as used in the Boiardo Tarocchi for suits)
the personal heraldic figure (as the Visconti Snake)
The universal falconer (other professions as the Hofämterspiel ?)
7 artes liberalis (as in the Mantegna Tarocchi)
literary figures as Orlando (in a 16th century Tarot)
the Sultan as Pope (as in a 17th century Tarot)
... and the 9 Muses (as in the Mantegna Tarocchi)
figures of the public theater (commedia del Arte)
... ranks of men
... famous condottieri ? (Andrea del Castagno)
... famous poets (Andrea del Castagno)
... Ovid figures (as in the Marolles translation)

... and if we go to the lot book systems, we find much more, which could be used to generate a symbolic system.

Hi Huck!
Well, I was trying to get to a 15th Century pool, I feel that I need to knock the Sola Busca as an anomaly.
Stoic passions OK
Maybe Gifts of the Spirit?
Apart from the Merchant of shoes, I cannot see professions.
The Arts....hmmmm OK, as all of Mategna.
Well I could add famous soldiers, after all, possibly Sforza and Visconti are in there.
I need to consult about Ovid.
PLease do not suggest battles
7 Deadly sins.
oh and those.... Contrary Virtues! (these are like the Knightly Virtues)
The thing is......the more selection the less likely there is a coherent sequence? Just popular images. Well it could have been like that.
~Rosanne

Rosanne said:

Hi Huck!
Well, I was trying to get to a 15th Century pool, I feel that I need to knock the Sola Busca as an anomaly.

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Palazzo Trinci, 1411/12 Gentile da Fabriano, 20 Roman heroes, Gigantes or Imperadore





... ... and the man with laurel asks: "Wasn't there a card game called Karnöffel, Imperatori or Keyzerspiel?"

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sala_dei_Giganti_(Foligno)

Thank You Huck for linking this wonderful 15th Century Home!
The Trinci Palace is like Tarot. Seperate rooms with themes.
Yes of course there is one room like the complete Sola Busca.
It is interesting that you can see triads like as the Chilvary triads we call the 'Nine Worthies'. There is a room for the Arts, a room for the Planets.
Exemplars of the time.
There is this 'threeness' about Tarot 22 also. It is like you are moving through rooms.
Classical, Christian and Pagan. Which of course was a Humanist ideal, of making a coherent plan for modern living. To a 15th Century person, this was 'modern' or contempory to them.

I would like also to say those wonderful german playing card games must have of course, influenced Tarot.
~Rosanne