Tag: arlecchino
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Tarocchino Arlecchino: The Popes
The two popes are removed from the Etteilla trumps (replaced with the Significators). Likewise, they do not appear in the modern Bolognese cards, transformed along with the Emperor and Empress into a quartet of Moors. But they were there once! And I am a completionist. So here, I made one of each of their costumes…
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Tarocchino Arlecchino: Love
Spring is in the air, the time when rosy-cheeked young lovers meet at the Fountain of the Malignant Harlequin Baby to exchange propositions. If all goes well, they will run off together to whack each other with their matching Batons. This drawing took me the longest of any of the cards so far. Probably because…
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Tarocchino Arlecchino: The Emperor
How did Harlequin get his name? One theory links him to King Herla who, like so many others, was hoodwinked in by dwarfs in Fairyland and condemned to wander the world, not quite living but not dying.