Huck
The painter "Lo Scheggio" alias Giovanni di ser Giovanni appears in ......
Franco Pratesi:
http://trionfi.com/naibi-on-sale
... as a playing card producer in Florence in the years 1447-49.
The article is announced here with some additional information ...
http://tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=16234&page=21
a short biography ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_di_ser_Giovanni_Guidi
Here I try to collect some pictures of him.
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Birth picture of Lorenzo de Medici 1449. Triumph of Fame. The painter is possibly the yellow figure in the middle.
Crowning and triumphal march Fredrick III. 1453
Description at:
http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/winter2009/features/marriage.html
Large picture here:
http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/winter2009/images/features/photoessay/05-frederick.jpg
Cassone "Triumph of David with two Hercules scenes, 1467
Description at http://www.carnesecchi.eu/Scheggia.htm
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lo_scheggia,_desco_da_parto_col_gioco_del_civettino,_pal_davanzati.jpg
Part of "gioco del civettino", somehow in context of ...
"I triumviri interrogano l'oracolo"
... http://www.atlantedellarteitaliana.it/author-577.html
Palazzo Davanzati
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Davanzati
Cassone Adimari
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassone_Adimari
(more pictures there)
Another version of Gioco del Civettino
This and other Petrarca Triumphs and other pictures at ...
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lo_Scheggia
Further a series of pictures here:
http://www.arcadja.com/auctions/it/ser_giovanni_di_simone_giovanni_lo_sc/prezzi-opere/64542/
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Special attention to this one:
"Reclining Youth", said to be from "first half of 15th century"
!!!! The way to paint the breasts looks rather similar to the strange Temperance on a stag in the Alessandro Sforza cards.
Alessandro Sforza Tarot, card Temperance ... till now NOT identified as from Lo Scheggia
compare this ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/4325875310/in/photostream/
and this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/4325134829/
... some other Scheggia pictures in the menu
(copyrighted pictures)
Franco Pratesi:
http://trionfi.com/naibi-on-sale
... as a playing card producer in Florence in the years 1447-49.
The article is announced here with some additional information ...
http://tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=16234&page=21
a short biography ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_di_ser_Giovanni_Guidi
Here I try to collect some pictures of him.
**************************************
Birth picture of Lorenzo de Medici 1449. Triumph of Fame. The painter is possibly the yellow figure in the middle.
Crowning and triumphal march Fredrick III. 1453
Description at:
http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/winter2009/features/marriage.html
Large picture here:
http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/winter2009/images/features/photoessay/05-frederick.jpg
Cassone "Triumph of David with two Hercules scenes, 1467
Description at http://www.carnesecchi.eu/Scheggia.htm
Part of "gioco del civettino", somehow in context of ...
"I triumviri interrogano l'oracolo"
... http://www.atlantedellarteitaliana.it/author-577.html
Palazzo Davanzati
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Davanzati
Cassone Adimari
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassone_Adimari
(more pictures there)
Another version of Gioco del Civettino
This and other Petrarca Triumphs and other pictures at ...
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lo_Scheggia
Further a series of pictures here:
http://www.arcadja.com/auctions/it/ser_giovanni_di_simone_giovanni_lo_sc/prezzi-opere/64542/
*****************
Special attention to this one:
!!!! The way to paint the breasts looks rather similar to the strange Temperance on a stag in the Alessandro Sforza cards.
Alessandro Sforza Tarot, card Temperance ... till now NOT identified as from Lo Scheggia
compare this ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/4325875310/in/photostream/
and this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/4325134829/
... some other Scheggia pictures in the menu
(copyrighted pictures)