The History Of Tarot: The Tarocchi Of Mantegna Cards

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Monday, May 14, 2007

The Tarocchi
Of Mantegna
Cards

Hermeticism and Tarot in the old days
These cards are dated to 1465 A.D. There is only very little known about this deck of cards; Some attributes this deck of cards to a Andreas Mantegna (1431-1506); Andrea Mantegna was a Renaissance artist living in Italy. He was a serious student of Roman archaeology, which some of his sketches show.
Andrea Mantegna a sketch of Romans Another sketch by Andrea Mantegna Sketch by Mantegna Painting by Andrea Mantegna
Since Andrea were a child, he was fortunate to be thought by some of his century great artists. At the age of eleven he was an apprentice of Francesco Squarcione (A Padovan-Italy, artist 1397 – 1468). It is probably through Francesco that Andrea became so fascinated by ancient Rome, Francesco was almost in love with ancient Rome. Andrea was only around 17 years old when he was called together with Nicoló Pizolo to work with a large artist group on decorating the Ovetari Chapel, Andrea Mantegna finished most of the work alone. Kenneth Clark attributes the cards to a Parrasio Michele (Micheli); I personally wonder why Kenneth Clark thinks the cards are attributed to Parrasio?.. 

The Tarocchi of Mantegna is divided into five groups, which some characterize as;

1) The Archetypal social stations of Humanity;
The Archetypal social stations of Humanity 
a) The Begger b) The Servant c) The Artisan or Craftsman d) The Gentleman or Squire e) The Knight f) The Duke g) The King h) The Emperor i) The Pope 

4 comments:

Simon said...

A real piece of history. Very interesting!

Voronoff said...

You are doing an impressive archaeological project on the tarot cards; thank you for gathering this information together. I've been using different tarot for 8 years. My grandmother had a deck of very small cards that were old and given to her by her mother whose family was from Helsinger, Denmark. That's all I know. But that interest has led me to create an online archive of strange information I have discovered about another ancestor of mine, Dr. Serge Voronoff, who grafted monkey glands into humans during the 20s. Learn more at www.voronoff.wordpress.com.

you have created a great site.

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