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Huck

News:

Robert Swiryn finally has published his http://www.thesecretofthetarot.com/ "The Secret of the Tarot"
See also:
http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&p=9420#p9420
http://tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=147249

Andrea Vitali has published a series of new essays:
In Italian:
http://www.letarot.it/Saggi_pag_pg5_ita.aspx (together with older essays)
Partly translated to English:
http://www.letarot.it/page.aspx?id=5&lng=ENG

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This card might belong to a sort of "Oldest German Tarot" from "a little later than 1493".

More pictures in "Il Castello dei Tarocchi"
see: http://trionfi.com/n/

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Merry Christmas
 

Huck

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Well, one doesn't see it at first moment, but that's part of a Tarot installation for ca. 700.000 Euro between Konstanz and Kreuzlingen at the Bodensee. Google Map shows this perspective:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=kreuz...code_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBwQ8gEwAA

The long white line, mostly through the water, from left to right stands for the German/Switzerland frontier, earlier marked by a frontier fence, which nowadays has disappeared. Well, it wasn't the wall of Berlin, but the local population of Konstanz (Germany) and Kreuzlingen (Switzerland), both as you see at the map very close to each other, enjoyed the fall of the fence.

So a famous local artist, Johannes Dörflinger ...

http://www.bodensee-woche.de/johannes-doerflinger-stellt-in-kulturbruecke-fratres-aus-070609-4417/

... together with an Institut to sponsor the work of young artists and the connected both cities realized this project, based on other Tarot projects, on which the artist worked since a Tarot period 1971-1975.

As far I get it, the 22 installations are realized now on a length of 280 meters. More pictures:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Dörflinger_Kunstgrenze

A music composition of Frédéric Bolli, which celebrates the new frontier line without fence, was given for the first time in September 2010.
 

gregory

WOW ! And how VERY different from the Tarotgarden in Tuscany - but in some lines, how similar.

Thanks for that, Huck - I shall add it to my itinerary next time we cross the channel !
 

Huck

A somehow intensive publication appeared 2009 in German language, a dissertation by Ulrike Wörner with 457 pages from the row
Regensburger Schriften zur Volkskunde - vergleichenden Kulturwissenschaft by the Regensburger Verein für Volkskunde

http://books.google.com/books?id=oeQxUX_BcYoC&source=gbs_navlinks_s

The title is: "Die Dame im Spiel" (The Lady in the Game) with the subtitle "Spielkarten als Indikatoren des Wandels von Geschlechterbildern und Geschlechterverhältnissen an der Schwelle zur Neuzeit" (Playing Cards as indicators of change in gender pictures and gender relations at the swell of modern age).

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The title picture looks, as if a man and a woman play with rounded cards, as they are known from the Burgundian deck from ca. 1470, now in a New York library. The wall carpet is given the title "Wandteppich der thronenden Minne" and it is dated 1410-20, which would mean, that such rounded cards already existed in this early time. The picture is new to me and I don't know, where it comes from (Burgundy ?).

Well, the preview is not extended enough to say, how good the book really is, but actually it can't be called bad - I meet enough details, which I don't know, mostly not surprises, but anyway, that are good signs. The major theme is 15th century and playing cards ... so just our theme and time. But definitely it's not, what we ourselves do, somehow the gender problem interferes too often.

This picture I found:

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... these are the Landeck cards, from which 7 have been found together with combs and needles in an old house in Fliess in the Oberinntal. Now they are in a Heimatmuseum in Landeck. They are dated ca. 1460.

The author had studied history and German language and literature, the dissertation was finished in the proud age of 64.
 

Huck

We got the somehow "private" information, that a request to the British library ended with the not totally satisfying result, that the picture ...

... image doesn't work

at ...
http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/results.asp?image=023973

... would be indeed from the period 1352-62 (the page gives 1352). The answer included "MS Additional 12228" was
produced in Italy, probably in Naples, between the years 1352 and 1362" and "the miniatures also date to this period."
No further detailed explanations.
The page itself gives additionally: "Men playing cards. Produced for Louis II, King of Naples. Image taken from Roman du Roy Meliadus de Leonnoys."

Kaplan I notes the picture at p. 31 and states "was written in the latter half of 14th century" and "we don't know, if the picture postdates the writing of the manuscript". Kaplan speaks of a print, and refers to Singer in 1816 ... but Singer did speak of an illumination and had made a print of it.

http://books.google.com/books?id=_WAOAAAAQAAJ
Page 67 - 69

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It seems, that the object of Singer and British library is the same.

Well, if this develops to an accepted date, we're not very far from the dates indicated by Hübsch in 1849 in his book about Bohemian trade.

http://trionfi.com/0/p/95/
 

Huck

Two recent great iconographic explorations:

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1. by OnePotato
on observing Father Time at Casa Rella, reported above:


OnePotato said:
Sort of.
That would be a foliot verge escapement.
It is a part of an early clock.

You can see a modern repro of one here:
http://www.uh.edu/engines/foliotverge.jpg

And here is a nice drawing of the mechanism, along with some background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verge_and_foliot


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at Casa Rella

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in Sola Busca

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at ...
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foliot

Indeed it's interesting, that we've a clear mixing of Time (clock) and lantern in the Casa Rella picture

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2. Another great and new observation of
Penelope Cline, author of deck Pen Tarot

webpage ( http://www.figtreepress.co.uk/ThePenTarot.htm )

about various relationships of pictures in the socalled
Etteilla III deck (from 1870)

and woodcut prints in the Schedel'sche Weltchronik

for instance this one:

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and this one ...

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Huck

Old Tarocchi Note: Farsa Satyra Morale

Old Tarocchi Note: Farsa Satyra Morale

This is one of the earliest appearances of the word Tarocchi

The oldest notes appear 1505 in Ferrara and in Avignon, other notes follow 1515/16 in Ferrara
http://trionfi.com/0/p/23/

This new note was brought to attention recently by Andrea Vitali
http://www.letarot.it/Farsa-Satyra-Morale_pag_pg255_ita.aspx
(an English translation will likely follow in the English version of the site)

Title: Farsa satyra morale ...
printed in Milano : by Ioanne da Castione (without date)

- dated by E. Sandal, Editori e tipografi a Milano nel Cinquecento, Baden Baden, 1977-1981, at c. 1510
- often dated by referencing texts as "before 1521" - this dating depended on the activity of Ioanne da Castione (the printer, who was according Andrea Vitali), this happened (likely) according the note by Jacques-Charles Brunet in 1864:
http://books.google.com/books?id=io...AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=farsa satyra morale&f=false

The text was found online ...
in "La commedia popolare in Italia: saggi" by Lorenzo Stoppato (1887)

at
http://www.archive.org/stream/lacommediapopol01stopgoog#page/n197/mode/2up

... the relevant passage is at page 207
http://www.archive.org/stream/lacommediapopol01stopgoog#page/n211/mode/2up

Tarocchi and Sminchiate are mentioned in context with other games:

Spampana [a soldier, the name comes from "spamanare" = "exaggerate"; the figure Spampana is seen as the prototype of the original and genuine "Capitano Glorioso", a figure which developed in the Commedia dell'arte; Capitano Fracasse, which appeared in the Belgian Tarot at the Papessa place, belongs to this category] :
Non e tua arte? questa mosca ho presa.
Trova pur chi te creda in altra purte.
Hor non teniam la cosa piu suspesa:
Con dadi a passa dece, a sanza, al sozzo,
A darli la man larga e ben distesa;
Minoretto, sbaraglio, ad urta gozzo,
A trichetrac, et a torna galea;
Vedi se come un pipion te ingozzo.
Ah, ah, scio quel che vuoi, no te intendea:
Eccole qui le galante sfogliose :
Chiama te: fante; ve, chel te venea.
Io voglio contentarte in tutte cose;
O voi alla crichetta, o alla fluxata,
A rompha, a fluxo, et a le due nascose;
Primera, al trenta, et alla condannata;
A rauso, a cresce el monte; hor apre gli occhi:
Che tua o mia sara questa giornata.
Mancava anchora el gioco de tarocchi,
Chesser mi par tuo pasto: e un altro anchora
Minchion, sminchiata voise dir da sciocchi.
Hor prende qual tu voi, chel fugge lhora.

Asuero: [a young man, the name is a form of Ahasverus]
Altro non intendo io, che quel de scacchi.

... but it would be interesting to understand the whole text, not only this passage. Perhaps somebody with better Italian understanding could read it and give some more information.

The poet Venturino Venturini had various publications (in Milan) and died 1530.

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The discussion was started in the thread "Minchiate by Vitali"
http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=682

Capitano Fracasse see here:
http://forum.tarothistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=487

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Huck

A few new "old Tarot cards"

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From a Minchiate sheet fragment, possibly late 16th, early 17th century

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Normal Tarot (from a sheet) with similarities to the Colonna Sheet
 

Lady Iron Side

Huck said:
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From a Minchiate sheet fragment, possibly late 16th, early 17th century

I find this very interesting as it closely resemble the Cary Yale - Prudence/Charity card but fliped, curious here as to what she is holding in her other hand. not the one that is holding the mirror. I also see that one of her breast is showing as well, this is depicted on the Cary Yale card. I'm wandering what the placement of this card is, is it before XI or after?

Charity/Prudence card Cary Yale http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i460/IronSideArt/Cary Yale deck/CharityPrudence.jpg

any thoughts Huck