Greg Stanton
Also, anyone notice that Justice is tipping the scales with her elbow?
The Spanish Tarot - historical deck.
Bernice
I've noticed this in quite a few historical decks, Justice often has tilted or uneven scales. Sometimes I think it's a design 'fault', but when she's clearly tipping the scales it makes me think that the card represents 'human justice', warts & allGreg Stanton said:
!Bee
Moonbow
I agree Bee, this is shown in a few decks, and to have a look at some Justices all together, here is the Albideuter site:
http://www.albideuter.de/html/marseille_etc_-_gerechtigkeit.html
http://www.albideuter.de/html/marseille_etc_-_gerechtigkeit.html
Bernice
That's a real good link for comparative Justice cards.
I can't help it, but the Ancient Marseille Tarot 'Justice' always cracks me up.
http://www.albideuter.de/html/m5-08.html
There she sits with one back-eye and one missing eye. How in the world does she perceive justice
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Purists, please ignore me.
Bee
I can't help it, but the Ancient Marseille Tarot 'Justice' always cracks me up.
http://www.albideuter.de/html/m5-08.html
There she sits with one back-eye and one missing eye. How in the world does she perceive justice
!Purists, please ignore me.
Bee
Cassandra022
necro-posting
but i must say, i think that this might be the deck that finally lures me into reading with a proper Marseilles tradition deck...normally i'm very turned off by the art style and colors of proper marseilles decks when it comes to actually reading with em...
but have been looking at scans online and...this is so quirky and coloring is so nice, not so intense with the bright primary colors only and...the more i look...the more i am drawn to it :0
but i must say, i think that this might be the deck that finally lures me into reading with a proper Marseilles tradition deck...normally i'm very turned off by the art style and colors of proper marseilles decks when it comes to actually reading with em...
but have been looking at scans online and...this is so quirky and coloring is so nice, not so intense with the bright primary colors only and...the more i look...the more i am drawn to it :0
l'appeso
+1
it has become one of my favorite decks despite some big flaws... imho it isn't a true historical repro, more of a fancy redrawing but it's got personality and it's a pleasure to use
one of my dreams would be that of restoring the original tarot (tarocco di giuseppe ottone which is maybe the earliest piedmontese tarot)... unfortunately I couldn't find the complete scans yet!
prudence
This one was one of my fave go to decks for quite a while...it's easy to shuffle and a nice smallish size...and the colors are fun, irreverent....the background color is a nice yellowish "old" looking color that does not make the other colors scream at you and cause headaches.
The extra arm on one of the Sun twins is always fun too.
The extra arm on one of the Sun twins is always fun too.
Cassandra022
yeah, i ended up going for it, haven't had time to actually read with it yet but LOVE the colors, cardstock is nice (my first fournier deck, it is) and...its like SO quirky, though i didn't notice the extra arm yet on the sun only the 'im gonna be sick' expression of the sun itself *runs to check it out*
Sulis
I really love the colouring and cardstock of this deck but it does seem to be a very bad copy of the Conver - hence the 3 arms on The Sun card and the unidentifiable creatures on The Wheel of Fortune etc...
The lion that looks like a rabbit on Strength really puts me off though... I wish it were a better copy though because the colours are so nice - it's a shame really.
The lion that looks like a rabbit on Strength really puts me off though... I wish it were a better copy though because the colours are so nice - it's a shame really.
Lee
Apparently the deck that the Spanish Tarot is based on predates the Conver. So we might rather say that the Conver is a too-serious copy of the Spanish.
