Sola Busca note - William Hughes Wilshire, April 12, 1876

Cerulean

Thanks to Dr. Arcanus and quick google Italian to English translation

http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/...chi_per_rilanciare_Brera_co_9_100216071.shtml

Translation (not edited, but the paragraphs were split for slightly easier reading)

The tarot cards to raise the Brera
Paid 800 000 euro 's single "deck" complete renaissance

T o be able to deliver the planned extension of the Pinacoteca di Brera, waited for thirty 'years, we have to rely on the' cabal ', must have thought the Ministry for Cultural Heritage, since the museum bought in Milan, for 800 000 euros, the 'only complete tarot deck engraved on metal, the Renaissance.

Are the "Tarot Sola Busca" (named after the family to which they belonged), made by a master Ferrara, perhaps linked to Cosme Tura (to whom are attributed the preparatory drawings for cards), around 1490. It is painted in tempera plates in different colors, with silver and gold on the various shields and crests, for seven of 14 cm and were placed in 1924. I am a full deck of 78 cards, 14 for each suit (swords, sticks, gold, cups), or the Minor Arcana, and 22 picture cards, the Major Arcana. The knights, queens and kings of each series bear the names of classical and biblical characters. One paper, 'last, shows the traditional figure of the Fool, or the wild card, hopefully that comes out to save the complex from the Brera slow.

It is a major purchase (the second most expensive outlay of 2009 the ministry), because it makes the Brera museum with the most remarkable combination of prestigious card games of the Renaissance. The gallery had already acquired it in 1971, the 48 "Brambilla Tarot 'products in the Duchy of Milan, Sforza, who are a bunch more fragmentary one of the oldest series in Europe: the so-called deck made for Filippo Maria Visconti in 1447 kept Yale University Library in New Haven. The Visconti were among the first families to spread the Tarot (then called Triumphs). The most complete bunch come down to us, made no earlier than 1450, is again in Milan: the so-called "Tarot of Francesco Sforza, in whose scheme is modeled on the cards later. So often that the badge and motto Visconti "A bon droyt 'appear, together with the heraldic symbols of the family (like the radiant sun, three diamond rings intertwined, the snake) in some decks.

In Milan, the game was so widespread that we find him also outlined some frescoes. The decks were usually made for festivals, weddings or special occasions. The "Tarot Sola Busca" have already arrived in Milan and will be exposed (perhaps towards the end of 'year) in an exhibition on the culture Ferrara.

These tarot cards were not the 'single purchase of the ministry, after the controversial crucifix by Michelangelo, in' last year held assess the quality of historical, artistic and documentary works, the restoration works dismembered in a unit and the completion and increase in special collections.

In addition to the tarot, it is evident through the purchases of 'last year, the large panel painting by Ludovico Brea (1.2 million euros), which was originally part of an altarpiece for the chapel painted by Pietro Di Fazio in the' old church Consolation of Genoa and from there moved away in 'Eight hundred (will Palazzo Spinola in Genoa). Overall, for the 'acquisition of new works in the Mibac' year 2009 has spent 3,073,950 euros, of which 2,169,400 in private treaty. Among the works that will arrive in Milan there are also "The Merchant of slaves," marble sculpture by Vincenzo Vela (78,400 euros) and "Study of the papal crowd of Pius VI in San Zanipolo in Venice," in pen and ink drawing sepia watercolor Guardi. PLAY RESERVED

Pierluigi Panza

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Huck

... very good information, Marco,
I didn't know that. And this are the real pictures at Tarotpedia?

Hind, whatever he wrote 1909, published in 1938 the Sola Busca pictures in his work about Italian engraving.

Cicognara's six (not seven) reproduced cards are these (neither Leber Tarocchi nor Sola-Busca, though with some similarities to the Leber Tarocchi small arcana), 4 aces and two trumps :

http://trionfi.com/0/j/d/leber/
you've to use the links to see them ... there are Cicognara links and there are Leber links.

They're shown together with the Leber to demonstrate the similarity. Some words to them are also at ...

http://trionfi.com/0/h/51/