I Tarocchi dei Visconti - 1965
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The Visconti-Tarot – Tarot
The 26 Cards of the Accademia Carrara
26 cards + informative cardboard, Bergamo
The Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti, founded in Bergamo by Count Giacomo Carrara in 1795, is today one of the most important Italian painting collections in terms of the quality of the works and perhaps one of the most highly valued art galleries across Europe because of the remarkable level of the numerous paintings it owns. All Italian painting schools are honorably represented with works by great masters, thanks to the refined culture and the sure and enlightened taste of Count Carrara, Count Lochis (1859), Senator Morelli (1891), Marenzi, Ceresa, Baglioni and the many other donors who gradually enriched the Pinacoteca. It was precisely the noble Francesco Baglioni who in 1901 donated the twenty-six tarot cards to the Accademia Carrara. The rarity has made them very famous.
The utmost decorative refinement has linked them with the most sincere works of art. Playing cards first appeared in Western Europe at the end of the Middle Ages. The Bishop of Würzburg prohibited their use by monks in 1329, but the pastoral reflects clearly an old and widespread custom; Leopoldo Cicognara suggests they are mentioned in a 1299 treatise by a certain Sandro di Pipozzo, which we cannot verify further. In the fifteenth century the name card or taroc was already common, and with the spread of the game to courts and higher social classes, valuable tarot cards were born that stood on par with jewelry, colorful designs, and ornaments by the most prominent artists. Later fashion waned, woodcuts and copper engravings made them superfluous, and time spread them. The cards Baglioni bound to the Carrara were part of a deck of no fewer than 75 pieces that belonged to the noble Alessandro Colleoni. Cut from cardboard, coated with cloth with a strong glue and plaster, with a gold background lightly hammered in relief, outlined, they feature an intense color palette and an utmost fineness of design. While attributed to the Zavattari, Longhi recognized them as a youth work of Bonifacio Bembo because of the style and taste: solemn, heraldic, chivalric in a way like no other; precious, elegant, refined. The motto “a bon droit” of Filippo Maria Visconti suggests that the cards were made for the prince’s court and during his reign. Three of the twenty-six cards were executed in 1480 by the Cremonese Antonio Cicognara (Temperance, the Moon, the Castle of Pluto).
The cards measure 9.5 by 17.5 cm
The year 1965 is the presumed edition year of this deck
The Visconti-Tarot – Tarot
The 26 Cards of the Accademia Carrara
26 cards + informative cardboard, Bergamo
The Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti, founded in Bergamo by Count Giacomo Carrara in 1795, is today one of the most important Italian painting collections in terms of the quality of the works and perhaps one of the most highly valued art galleries across Europe because of the remarkable level of the numerous paintings it owns. All Italian painting schools are honorably represented with works by great masters, thanks to the refined culture and the sure and enlightened taste of Count Carrara, Count Lochis (1859), Senator Morelli (1891), Marenzi, Ceresa, Baglioni and the many other donors who gradually enriched the Pinacoteca. It was precisely the noble Francesco Baglioni who in 1901 donated the twenty-six tarot cards to the Accademia Carrara. The rarity has made them very famous.
The utmost decorative refinement has linked them with the most sincere works of art. Playing cards first appeared in Western Europe at the end of the Middle Ages. The Bishop of Würzburg prohibited their use by monks in 1329, but the pastoral reflects clearly an old and widespread custom; Leopoldo Cicognara suggests they are mentioned in a 1299 treatise by a certain Sandro di Pipozzo, which we cannot verify further. In the fifteenth century the name card or taroc was already common, and with the spread of the game to courts and higher social classes, valuable tarot cards were born that stood on par with jewelry, colorful designs, and ornaments by the most prominent artists. Later fashion waned, woodcuts and copper engravings made them superfluous, and time spread them. The cards Baglioni bound to the Carrara were part of a deck of no fewer than 75 pieces that belonged to the noble Alessandro Colleoni. Cut from cardboard, coated with cloth with a strong glue and plaster, with a gold background lightly hammered in relief, outlined, they feature an intense color palette and an utmost fineness of design. While attributed to the Zavattari, Longhi recognized them as a youth work of Bonifacio Bembo because of the style and taste: solemn, heraldic, chivalric in a way like no other; precious, elegant, refined. The motto “a bon droit” of Filippo Maria Visconti suggests that the cards were made for the prince’s court and during his reign. Three of the twenty-six cards were executed in 1480 by the Cremonese Antonio Cicognara (Temperance, the Moon, the Castle of Pluto).
The cards measure 9.5 by 17.5 cm
The year 1965 is the presumed edition year of this deck
Details
Number of books
1
Book title
I Tarocchi dei Visconti
Condition
Very good
Publication year oldest item
1965
Height
17.5 cm
Width
9.5 cm
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