Strength Art and Meaning Visconti B Tarot Deck Fragment Deck
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About the Deck
Visconti B Tarot Deck Fragment
(aka Pierpont Morgan Bergamo Tarot Deck) One of the earliest Tarot Decks, the Pierpont Morgan Deck is entirely gilded, with fine paintings upon it.
It is estimated to have been produced around 1451 or 1452, possibly for a triumphal event in 1453.
Provenance
Italy, c. 1452.
Tags
According to Many Schools of Thought
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
Fortitude. This is one of the cardinal virtues, of which I shall speak later. The female figure is usually represented as closing the mouth of a lion. In the earlier form which is printed by Court de Gebelin, she is obviously opening it. The first alternative is better symbolically, but either is an instance of strength in its conventional understanding, and conveys the idea of mastery. It has been said that the figure represents organic force, moral force and the principle of all force.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Equilibrium, Balance, Justice
Reversed
Bigotry, Want of Balance, Abuse of Justice, Over-severity, Inequality, Bias.
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Justice.
