One of these examples is the Mantegna deck, created in Ferrara or Venice. This inspires me to to pull out the (I think US Games) version of this that was published twenty or so years ago. Art.com pay us small commissions based on any prints or paintings that you buy as a result of using this website. On both illustrations the winged figure is holding the Genius of Light, symbolizing the Sun, in his hands. The seven liberal arts are divided in the Trivium (Grammer, Rhetoric and Logic) and the Quadrivium (Geometry, Arymetic, Music or Harmony and Astrology or Cosmology). The closer the incised lines are to one another, the darker the area. And from that day on Apollo is riding every day in the skies. Such a sheet is of course much lighter to transport than a painting on panel, which is why artists increasingly disseminated their ideas via engravings. The remaining cards (including the Sun) were created by another artist approximately 20 to 30 years later, so well after the Mantegna engravings were printed. As a proof I will grant you one of your dearest wishes”. The second group of ten cards, labeled D, depicts the 9 Muses. Cronos swallowed the stone without remarking the difference. Many of the Mantegna cards, and probably all of them, tell a story. The so called Tarot (or Tarocchi) of Mantegna is not a Tarot game, it is not even a game and it does not consist of cards. The Muses represent the pleasant parts of life. It’s an obvious sibling to the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot. The engravings have been attributed for many years to Andreas Mantegna, an artist and engraver born in Padova and working in Mantova for the ducal court. Ethiopia is as you know the country where humanity has born, the cradle of mankind. Venus has some details in common with the Lovers, Mars is very similar to the Chariot, Jupiter looks like the World on the Tarot of Marseille and Saturn is a strange blend of the Hermit, Death and the Devil of the Tarot decks. The three groups in between have a different structure with respect to the Tarot trumps, they do not represent the hardship of human life, but the Muses, the Liberal Arts and the Virtues. We always benefit from your musings and research. This deck shows clearly the effort to survey the universe and man, which you well explored. The Classical Liberal Arts are the intellections that arise from the element Air. Before the Seven Virtues, in order to arrive at ten cards, are depicted three Geniuses, Iliaco the Genius of Light, Chronico the Genius of Time and Cosmico the Genius of Space. Gherardo is clearly inspired by the Mantegna engravings. He warned his son for the dangers in the sky and he advised him to stay in the middle path of the heavens. The technique of engraving allowed pictures, visual ideas, and copies to be disseminated in a simple manner. If the images had been made in Ferrara, probably card number VII would have been depicted a Duke. Andrea Mantegna - Four Dancing Muses - 1921.175 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif 5,024 × 3,704; 53.26 MB. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Still today you can find prehistoric drawings in the Sahara Desert depicting animals and hunters. The account which has come down to us from Vasari (who was, as usual, keen to assert that everything flows from Florence) is that Mantegna began engraving in Rome, prompted by the engravings produced by the Florentine Baccio Baldini after Sandro Botticelli. As an example, let us have a closer look to the card representing Saturn, a card that corresponds to the Hermit (the Old Man, Father Time) in the Tarot deck. Andrea Mantegna - Jesus Cristo descendo ao limbo.JPG 996 × 1,283; 667 KB. Personally I adhere to the group of people who believe in an origin of Venice. The image here below represent four figures from the first group that have their counterparts in the Tarot trumps : Without any difficulty we can recognize the Fool (MISERO), the Magician (ARTIXAN), the Emperor (IMPERATOR) and the Pope (PAPA). I’m sure you can catch how much my personal style of art vibes with this pack of cards. My current tarot obsession is the 50-card Tarocchi di Mantegna (or Mantegna Tarot) from 15th century Italy. September 1506 in Mantua) war ein italienischer Maler und Kupferstecher. The next level, labeled B, consists of the Seven Virtues. A cool synchronicity in the arrangement of the five groupings of ten is how it can be reconciled with the Kabbalistic Tree of Life with the ten sefirot, moving from lower material to higher spiritual. Three of the Virtues, Temperance, Strength and Justice are present in the Tarot, and all of them can be found in the Minchiate cards (see next page). The Mantegna cards being created in Italy, this is the reason why this card  is called Saturn. Most of the experts attribute the engravings to an artist from Ferrara. I want to know where the muse for painting is?? The four Platonian and Biblical virtues are depicted in Cards 34, 35, 36, and 37: Temperance (Temperantia), Prudence (Prudentia or Sophia), Fortitude (Fortitudo), and Justice (Iustitia). The Stories behind the Mantegna engravings. You see that trivium in Cards 21, 22, and 23. Prima Causa is the Empyrean Heaven, the dwelling of God (and the realm where the Empyrean Courts in my tarot deck reside). So Phaethon went for a long journey, through Arabia, Persia and India to finally arrive in the Himalaya mountains. He must have been a source of inspiration for the Northern Italian courts to discuss about lots of subjects, including the organisation of the Universe. The only one who was ready to do so was her youngest son, Cronos. Cronos had many children with his sister Rhea, such as Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Hestia and Demeter. I think you might really enjoy our oracle card deck Your Heart Knows The Way. The other Gods begged Zeus not to leave them in darkness. Most scolars do not believe any more in this origin. The Chariot came closer and closer to Earth. First came out the stone, quickly followed by his two brothers and three sisters. On the illustration we see Cronos devouring one of his children, with at his feet the other four children he will eat. In that time there was a handsome boy living in Ethiopia. The lowest group of 10 cards is labeled E in the left bottom corner, the next group D and so on, until A for the highest group. Helios was obliged to make the wish of Phaeton come true. The set of Heavenly Spheres in its ordering is amazing! Then Aurora opened the curtains of Dawn, and the four mighty stallions sprung to Heaven with in the Chariot Phaeton instead of his father. The four horses escaped and ran home. They passed the great snake, who, woken up by the heat of the sun, exhaled poisonous breath. Cronos asked Gaia for the newborn child to eat him. I believe that he extended the Trionfi cards from 14 to 22 Trumps in order to express his viewpoint on this suject. Out of Chaos alone, three children were born; Gaia, representing Earth, the first of the elements, Tartarus, representing the Underworld and Eros, representing Love. On the card we see Apollo riding the Sunwagon. All symbols on the card are there to recall parts of this story. And there he found the palace of Helios. Cards 38, 39, and 40 are the trinity of theological virtues: Charity, Hope, and Faith. The similarities are too evident to be ignored. There’s a numerological relationship between The Mason and The World card through the Trinity. [dream off], Pingback: Tarocchi di Mantegna (1465) Instructional Engravings – Indie News, Pingback: SKT 3.0, Second Septenary Walk-Through – benebell wen. ( Log Out /  Tarocchi di Mantegna (1465) Instructional Engravings, https://www.peaceunleashed.com/your-heart-knows-the-way, Tarocchi di Mantegna (1465) Instructional Engravings – Indie News, SKT 3.0, Second Septenary Walk-Through – benebell wen, Simplicity Tarot by Emilie Muniz: A Tarot Deck for Everyone, Accessing Genetic Memory Through Tarot: Ancestral Connections and Past Life Recall, Walk-Through of Key 1 to Key 11 in SKT III, Inspiration and Process for Coloring SKT III; The Emperor Revisited, SKT the Third, Experimental Trials: Trying Out Full-Color. He was one of the best educated people of his time and he was skilled in Mythology, Art, Warfare and numerous other things. This is the Earthly realm. If you’re on the e-mail list for my newsletter, then you’ll be receiving a link to download the printable tarot card size image files for this 50-card deck, so if that’s of interest to you, then keep an eye on your inbox for that. Apollo heads this group as card number 20 (and XX). Still later, out of the union between Gaia and Uranus, many children were born. Below I’ve arranged the cards in sequential order by their card numbers, and by the five groupings, with 10 cards in each set. Some of these images remind of the dreamer of the cards in the deck. This is the real story of Phaethon, the story about how the Sahara Desert was created, why the African people are black and why Helios was replaced by Apollo, the story that is depicted on this Mantegna print. Andrea Mantegna (* 1431 auf der Isola Mantegna, früher Isola di Carturo, bei Piazzola sul Brenta, Provinz Padua; † 13. You can click on any of these image files for an enlarged view of the cards. For more about this topic see the pages about the Tarot Development. Also in his hand an Ouroboros, a dragon eating its own tail. ( Log Out /  Long time ago the Sahara was green and people were living and hunting in this beautiful land. If you haven’t joined my newsletter yet and you’d like to be on the list for receiving cool free resources, downloads, etc., then join here. Out of the union between Chaos and Gaia, Uranus was born, the God representing the Sky. Here the Ouroboros symbolizes Time, Chronos being the God of Time, but it remembers also the second birth of the children of Cronos when he vomited them. Look at the four cards represented here below. It’s a very cool structure, five groups of ten cards – I’m going to do some more reading up on it now and see how best to work with it. The eighth sphere was the sphere of the fixed stars and the Firmanent. This infuriated Gaia and she asked her children to overthrow Uranus. An image can be then printed several times on paper. The objective of this page is not to give a torough discussion of the Mantegna engravings, you can find many of them on the Internet. Because a Doge has been represented here, I adhere to a Venetian origin of these engravings.

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