Playing Cards and Manuscripts: Some Widely Disseminated Fifteenth-Century Model Sheets
1974; College Art Association; Volume: 56; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043079.1974.10789835
ISSN1559-6478
AutoresAnne Hagopian van Buren, Sheila Edmunds,
ResumoAmong the marginal grotesques in a Savoyard missal illuminated around 1443 a stag reclines on an island of turf in a somewhat tortured contrapposto (Fig. 1).1 In a miniature painted around 1450 in a Franco–Flemish copy of Le livre des déduis du roi Modus et de la reine Ratio there is a stag reclining in the same pose, though more restfully, and facing in the same direction (Fig. 2).2 And in an engraved playing card of unknown provenance (save that its use of living creatures as suit emblems is Northern European) printed on paper datable 1451–533 there is once more a stag in the same pose and direction; here he has more natural elegance (Fig. 3). Evidently these practically identical motifs, made in distant parts of Europe, are related, but the nature of the relation is far from obvious.
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