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Showing posts with label Robinet Testard. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Robinet Testard. Show all posts

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Little bits of ( NOT ) Mantegna's ( NOT ) tarot designs are re-cycled in subject matter and in imagery in writer Evrard de Conty's and illuminator Robinet Testard's LIVRES DES ECHECS MORALISES ... Wikipedia suggests they both derive from the same sources of chivalric folklore and pseudo-aristotlean ethics that were being spoon-fed to the writer's and artist's patrons ...

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarots_de_Mantegna https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_livre_des_%C3%A9checs_amoureux_moralis%C3%A9s#:~:text=Le%2...

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Robinet Testard's illustrations for "Ovide, Heroides ou Epitres" an extension of Ovid's Heroides by Octavien de Saint-Gelais

Robinet Testard lived in France from around 1470 to 1531-ish https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8427253m/f7.item.r=Robinet+Testard.langF...

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