Bruegel Tarot - Paintings of Peasant life Cards

Inspired by the rich and detailed artistic style of Flemish painter, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, these cards show the daily life of the medieval peasant in lively fashion. It's a rather more earthy Tarot than the Giotto Tarot by the same author - this one features drunk peasants!

The Reformation set off an artistic crisis in northern Europe. Hard on the heels of the glories of Renaissance art, came a religious movement that forbade art in churches. (It still does. Lutheran churches in Germany are dreadfully dull places.) Artists lost lucrative commissions for altar pieces, triptychs, frescoes, gory renditions of a man bleeding to death on a cross, etc. Unfortunately, 16th century Europe wasn't yet rich enough for a merchant class that could offer lucrative artistic commissions. So, for the most part, artists survived by painting portraits. In the Netherlands a style of "genre painting" developed, depicting nature & daily life. Among those artists, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-1569) was one of the masters. This deck is based on his paintings of peasant life. He was influenced by the Flemish painter, Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516) (See the Bosch Tarot.)

In this deck, Swords represent spring, Wands summer, Pentacles autumn, and Chalices winter. Taking a hint from one of Bruegel's paintings, Netherlandish Proverbs (aka The Topsy-Turvy World), each card in this deck has a proverb associated with it. For the eight cards above, they are:

Magician: He who paints a flower does not give it a scent.
Two of Swords: Man is known by three things: His anger, his purse, and his booze.
Queen of Pentacles: Greed is the place where grain is always seed.
Ace of Chalices: The smoke from my house is worth more than the roast in yours.

The Hanged Man: Doubt is the father of knowledge.
The Sun: Everyone plants their own happiness, everyone sows their own joy, everyone holds their own destiny.
Ten of Wands: Every wood has its worms.
Nine of Swords: Every man has his cross to bear.

This deck contains 78 cards.
Cards measure approximately 6.5 x 11.5 cm
Cards are bilingual.
No booklet comes with this Lo Scarabeo's version.

This version is not easy to come by. Like new and never used.

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