Tag: Tarocchino 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: The Significators
Sorry Etteilla, you are being replaced. One of the Etteilla tradition’s many eccentricities is the inclusion of a male and a female significator within the trumps. These replaced the Tarot de Marseille’s Pope and Female Pope, respectively. And, if you haven’t guessed, they’re both titled ETTEILLA. There are a number of compositions for these ETTEILLAs.1…
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Tarocchino Arlecchino: The Magician
The Magician is perhaps the trump where a Harlequin is most at home. He gets free rein to bedevil, bewilder, and swindle. He is surrounded by four pestering imps lovely children and dizzying streaks of red. Maybe they are in league – the Magician’s plants in the audience. Or not. Will he succeed in tricking…
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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 Fool
In a deck of maniacal harlequins, who is wild enough to be called the Fool? This Fool wears motley of many shapes. His costume incorporates the signature patterns of the four courts1, including moons, leaves, and classic diamonds. He’s also covered in feathers and leaves, which he has picked up from his wanderings through wood…
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Tarocchino Arlecchino: The Empress
. . . the Elle-woman is young and of a fair and attractive countenance, but behind she is hollow like a dough-trough.
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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.