Rosanne
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If you scroll down you will come to a book that has two rough painted sketches of Cary Yale Visconti cards stuck in a book about Pisanello.
It appears that the artist was one Mary/Margaret/May.. Jones who wrote in part, in pencil
Paris June 16th '35
Peter or Petit Patois
Services de jour Tarot
par Les Visconti di Milano par Vitore Pisanello 1428
Exposition .......(illegible to me)Italiano
I have read somewhere that the Cary Yale Visconti could have been created as early as 1428. I have not found why this date has been considered.
I researched the possible places where this Mary Jones could have seen the cards in Paris and found there was an exposition in a Gallery called the Italian Boutique on the same date, given by Carlo Visconti. In 1935 the CY Visconti was privately held by the Visconti Di Modrone family. This was the surviving branch of the Visconti who were the Dukes of Milan; it was by marriage they had taken this title. The Italian Boutique was featuring the fabric artist Maria Gallenga, famous in this time. She was particularly interested in Italian fabrics from Lucca and Milan in the Renaissance.
It would appear that Mary Jones must have seen the cards at this exposition, because they were not available to seen outside the family Visconti until they were sold in 1947 the Mr Cary who donated them to the Yale Library.
It is now known that the cards were painted by the Bonifacio Bembo, not Pisanello.
My questions are......
Where would Mary Jones have got the idea that they were painted in by Pisanello in 1428 from?
Did the Visconti di Modrone family give this information and why?
Is it possible that the Visconti family had incorrect information or is the information correct?
Carlo Visconti had a brother who was famous as a filmmaker and patron of Arts. His name was Luchino Visconti di Modrone. He consistently over many years sold family artifacts to fund his film-making.He sold the cards in 1947 as he was going into production of his film 'the Earth Trembles' produced in 1948. He had previously worked with Coco Chanel and continued his opera interests in the La Scala Opera House of Milan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luchino_Visconti
It occurred to me that naming these cards by Pisanello would have had a better salable quality than saying Bembo and maybe the date was to assure they were considered Visconti rather than Sforza. Every where you read it is said that these hand painted cards are from the mid 15th Century.
Was this aggrandizement of the Visconti name to make a sale?
Is this correct information?
Or did Mary Jones make an assumption without basis?
What do you think?
~Rosanne
If you scroll down you will come to a book that has two rough painted sketches of Cary Yale Visconti cards stuck in a book about Pisanello.
It appears that the artist was one Mary/Margaret/May.. Jones who wrote in part, in pencil
Paris June 16th '35
Peter or Petit Patois
Services de jour Tarot
par Les Visconti di Milano par Vitore Pisanello 1428
Exposition .......(illegible to me)Italiano
I have read somewhere that the Cary Yale Visconti could have been created as early as 1428. I have not found why this date has been considered.
I researched the possible places where this Mary Jones could have seen the cards in Paris and found there was an exposition in a Gallery called the Italian Boutique on the same date, given by Carlo Visconti. In 1935 the CY Visconti was privately held by the Visconti Di Modrone family. This was the surviving branch of the Visconti who were the Dukes of Milan; it was by marriage they had taken this title. The Italian Boutique was featuring the fabric artist Maria Gallenga, famous in this time. She was particularly interested in Italian fabrics from Lucca and Milan in the Renaissance.
It would appear that Mary Jones must have seen the cards at this exposition, because they were not available to seen outside the family Visconti until they were sold in 1947 the Mr Cary who donated them to the Yale Library.
It is now known that the cards were painted by the Bonifacio Bembo, not Pisanello.
My questions are......
Where would Mary Jones have got the idea that they were painted in by Pisanello in 1428 from?
Did the Visconti di Modrone family give this information and why?
Is it possible that the Visconti family had incorrect information or is the information correct?
Carlo Visconti had a brother who was famous as a filmmaker and patron of Arts. His name was Luchino Visconti di Modrone. He consistently over many years sold family artifacts to fund his film-making.He sold the cards in 1947 as he was going into production of his film 'the Earth Trembles' produced in 1948. He had previously worked with Coco Chanel and continued his opera interests in the La Scala Opera House of Milan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luchino_Visconti
It occurred to me that naming these cards by Pisanello would have had a better salable quality than saying Bembo and maybe the date was to assure they were considered Visconti rather than Sforza. Every where you read it is said that these hand painted cards are from the mid 15th Century.
Was this aggrandizement of the Visconti name to make a sale?
Is this correct information?
Or did Mary Jones make an assumption without basis?
What do you think?
~Rosanne