A gleaming thread, gossamer yet firm, connects the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and an odd and enigmatic artwork from late medieval Northern Italy. Read part…
A gleaming thread, gossamer yet firm, connects the poet Rainer Maria Rilke with an odd and enigmatic artwork from late medieval Northern Italy. A three-part post…
This is the third of a three-part post on the process used to paint the earliest extant tarot cards, made in fifteenth-century northern Italy. Part…
This is the second of a three-part post on the process used to paint the earliest extant tarot cards*, made in fifteenth-century northern Italy. Part…
This is the first of a three-part post on the process used to paint the earliest extant tarot cards (about tarot), made in fifteenth-century northern…
Early tarot cards — used for gaming, not divination — emblemize the midpoint of fifteenth-century Italy, a crossroads of Medieval imagination and Renaissance intellect. They…