A Renaissance Tarot - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Renaissance Tarot write by Brian Williams. This book was released on 1994. A Renaissance Tarot available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE RENAISSANCE TAROT DECK TAKES ITS INSPIRATION FROM THE SPLENDOR OF ITALIAN RENAISSANCE CULTURE AND CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY. THE 22 MAJOR ARCANA CARDS FEATURE THE OLYMPIAN DEITIES AND DEMI-GODS OF ANTIQUITY. IN THE MINOR ARCANA, THE FOUR SUITS ARE REPRESENTED BY FOUR FAMILIAR MYTH CYCLES, AND THE GREAT CITIES OF RENAISSANCE ITALY ARE REPRESENTED IN THE COURT CARDS.
Renaissance Tarot Deck
Renaissance Tarot Deck - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Renaissance Tarot Deck write by Brian Williams. This book was released on 2004. Renaissance Tarot Deck available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through the exquisite artwork of Brian Williams, Renaissance Tarot connects traditional tarot symbology to the splendor of European Renaissance culture and classical mythology. The 22 Major Arcana cards feature the Olympian deities and demi-gods of antiquity. Card titles are in English and Italian. In the booklet, also by classics scholar Brian Williams, each card description identifies both the Greek and Roman deity as well as his related attributes. For example, the Fool is associated with Dionysus/Bacchus and the Magician with Hermes/Mercury. The four suits in the Minor Arcana are represented by four classical myth cycles with an interlocking system of planets, constellations, seasons, and elements. Swords relate to Achilles; Staves to Hercules; Cups to Cupid and Pysche; and Coins to Persephone. The great cities of Renaissance Italy are represented in the court cards. The back design of Renaissance Tarot features a mandala incorporating symbols of the four suits and the four elements. Brian Williams artfully weaves together a rich tapestry of Renaissance imagery.
The Renaissance Tarot
The Renaissance Tarot - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Renaissance Tarot write by Jane Lyle. This book was released on 1999. The Renaissance Tarot available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Featuring a beautiful, richly symbolic Tarot deck inspired by medieval and Renaissance Europe, and a clear, easy-to-use instructional handbook, this unusual package will appeal to novice and experienced readers, as well as collectors of Tarot cards. 78 color cards.
Pagan Virtue in a Christian World
Pagan Virtue in a Christian World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pagan Virtue in a Christian World write by Anthony F. D’Elia. This book was released on 2016-01-04. Pagan Virtue in a Christian World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, publicly damning a living man. The target was Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts with ties to the Florentine Renaissance. Condemned to an afterlife of torment, he was burned in effigy in several places in Rome. What had this cultivated nobleman done to merit such a fate? Pagan Virtue in a Christian World examines anew the contributions and contradictions of the Italian Renaissance, and in particular how the recovery of Greek and Roman literature and art led to a revival of pagan culture and morality in fifteenth-century Italy. The court of Sigismondo Malatesta (1417–1468), Anthony D’Elia shows, provides a case study in the Renaissance clash of pagan and Christian values, for Sigismondo was nothing if not flagrant in his embrace of the classical past. Poets likened him to Odysseus, hailed him as a new Jupiter, and proclaimed his immortal destiny. Sigismondo incorporated into a Christian church an unprecedented number of zodiac symbols and images of the Olympian gods and goddesses and had the body of the Greek pagan theologian Plethon buried there. In the literature and art that Sigismondo commissioned, pagan virtues conflicted directly with Christian doctrine. Ambition was celebrated over humility, sexual pleasure over chastity, muscular athleticism over saintly asceticism, and astrological fortune over providence. In the pagan themes so prominent in Sigismondo’s court, D’Elia reveals new fault lines in the domains of culture, life, and religion in Renaissance Italy.
Medieval Scapini Tarot
Medieval Scapini Tarot - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Scapini Tarot write by Luigi Scapini. This book was released on 1991-05. Medieval Scapini Tarot available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Italian artist Luigi Scapini's lavish paintings recreate 15th century Italy in this gold-accented tarot deck. The Major Arcana and court cards have gold backgrounds in the manner of fifteenth-century European decks. Both the Major and Minor Arcana include full scenes. In the Minors, symmetrical arrangements of the suit symbols provide composition around which the scenes are arranged.The depth of Scapini's art history expertise is evident in his lush settings and period costumes. Interesting details, and sometimes-humorous references, are cleverly imbedded in the artwork, with many of the cards depicting historical figures, for example, Rasputin as the Knight of Cups. Readers will easily relate to the universal situations revealed in the cards, for pleasurable and insightful readings.
