François Chosson
Clouds above the Lovers
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008I think there’s something wrong with the Lovers card in the Marseille Tarots.
I’ve mentioned it before elsewhere, but I think it’s worth bringing up again. Let’s take a look at the Lovers card from the Jean Noblet Tarot, (Paris, 1650):
Notice the area that contains the cupid? The shape of this area has always bothered me. […]
An Interesting Tarot Mold from the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Sunday, March 16th, 2008I was looking through images on the Bibliothèque nationale de France site, and came across a very interesting TdM mold. This type of woodblock mold was used to print the black lines of tarot cards onto sheets of paper, then the sheets were stenciled one color at a time. Unfortunately, the image was not […]