Art Institute of Chicago
The Sun, plate 44 from Planets and Spheres
Master of the E-Series TarocchiLinkedCulture matchlcp-c5fb53e04eac
- Date
- c. 1465
- Medium
- Engraving on paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 122271
These so-called tarot cards were probably used as teaching tools—pamphlets or sets of flashcards— for noblemen or students. They instilled the traditional hierarchies of society and philosophy in five ascending series: Ranks and Conditions of Men , Apollo and the Muses , Arts and Sciences , Planets and Spheres , and Genii and Virtues . Artists also reused figures from these engravings in their art. The tarrochi are sometimes found bound as books, reinforcing their educational content. The Sun , with its curious conjunction of the zodiac’s Scorpio and a falling child, comes from the series Planets and Spheres
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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