New at Trionfi.com

The colors are soft, less aggressive as in the both examples, and less colors are used.
The cards are surprizing in their height in relation to their width, more than the usual 200 %, but maybe 230/240 %. The Fool is in its expression unusual. The names are French, although the deck was made in Trieste ... The region was dominated by France in 1809-13, but the deck is said to be of ca. 1790 .. and Trieste is far from France.
The original should be a cheap production, not caring too much, if the color met the right place - the remake is a solid production, probably not changing the original design.

Tall cards. Easy to shuffle/handle?

"The Fool is in its expression unusual."
Unusual...... do you think this is intentional, or by accident? Some of the facial expressions on early decks, although appealing because of quaintness, are really just a lack of artistic ability. The important thing is, do you like it ?

Strange that the titles are in French. I wonder if someone, perhaps a traveller, took a french deck to Trieste and it was reproduced there (Trieste) from memory?

Bee

The format is changed, so all figures look a little thin. For the outfit of the Fool ... for the moment I've no scanner.

Still in an experimental form has developed

http://a-tarot.eu

an installation to build a new Tarot and Playing Cards News system.

A first article is there ... "Tarot at youtube (2009)", which might take some of us hours and even days. Of special interest should be ...

"Secrets of the Playing Card : Decoding the Past"
A 45-minute TV-report with many interesting and otherwise unknown cards and the participation of some card researchers, between them David Parlett and Thierry Depaulis

The 8th link from the top

... but all the others are surely also not known by everybody

Tarot at Youtube !

Wonderful new installation Huck, a Tarot and Playing Cards News system.
Thank you for making lot's of obscure information now available via youtube

Bee

Ah wonderful Huck. I'm still working my way through them but this is a great addition.

We've added two articles to the collection of appearances of the expression "Trionfi" in context of playing cards in 15th century:

http://trionfi.com/0/e/29b/
http://trionfi.com/0/e/29c/

One contains a report to a new finding by Ross Caldwell for November 1469, the painter Federico Bonacossi delivered a Trionfi deck. At the same list is also a very early note to the game Ronfa, which occasionally appears in context to Trionfi cards - it isn't really known, what sort of game this was. As far we know, this should be the second oldest note to the game, the older note refers to an allowance in Florence (1463), in which Trionfi, Ronfa and Cricha are allowed. In later prohibitions Trionfi is allowed, but Ronfa and Criche are forbidden.

compare: the Ronfa collection ... http://trionfi.com/0/p/19/

The second summarizes the information about a Trionfi card fresco in Pavia in 1469, already mentioned by Kaplan.

Bernice said:

Tall cards. Easy to shuffle/handle?

"The Fool is in its expression unusual."
Unusual...... do you think this is intentional, or by accident? Some of the facial expressions on early decks, although appealing because of quaintness, are really just a lack of artistic ability. The important thing is, do you like it ?

Strange that the titles are in French. I wonder if someone, perhaps a traveller, took a french deck to Trieste and it was reproduced there (Trieste) from memory?

Bee

Click to expand...

http://www.albideuter.de/html/lombardisch-trieste.html

Exhibition Andrea Vitali

Andrea Vitali will make his next Tarot exposition since July 2010 at this location ...

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=turin...48895,7.685382&spn=0.001351,0.002411&t=k&z=19

... in Turin at the river Po in the Parco Valentino in a neo-gothico castle which was build during 19th century, not very far from the city station ... a very large object with many different perspectives, if you observe it at Google maps. At Google maps is a picture gallery.



Borgo e Rocca Medioevale
Fu costruito per l'Esposizione Internazionale del 1884 a Torino ad opera principalmente dell'eclettico Alfredo d'Andrade, portoghese di nascita ed italiano di adozione, grande conoscitore del medioevo piemontese e restauratore di vari castelli ed abbazie in Piemonte.

So made for an international exposition 1884, which says: it's not really medieval, but "neo-gothico", as some of our Tarot cards are. But they copied with some detail other objects, between them the Castle Manta pictures.

Nonetheless it looks nice and seems to be a major touristic attraction. The whole is inside a big park with many other attractions, between them a "castle of Valentino" from 17th century.

A Tarot card




more of it:
http://www.icpal.beniculturali.it/e...-BEB5-7E3928BC2F61&go=scheda_fotografico.html