Tag: Tarot
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Tarocchino Arlecchino: The Virtues
Evening falls and the Chariot pulls up to a moss-covered hall. Hop down from your seat, look back up and your driver has disappeared – how strange! Nothing to do but pass through the monumental blackened wood door, behind which lights flicker. Entering the hall, you see a gathering of charming virtuous ladies. That is,…
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Tarocchino Arlecchino: The Chariot
Mercurial! Martial! Such is the dual nature of this Harlequin, with his winged helmet and sword. His war chariot is drawn by two horses, opposed at the head and entangled in the center. Streams of red punctuate the air, litter the ground, and bind the horses together. One sun emits circles of light, the other…
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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…