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Luciano Cheles has also observed that "on both sides of the [Carte de trionfi] card devoted to 'Geometria,' a wading bird that may well be a crane is represented in the foreground of the landscape," a feature that he suggests "hints at surveying" (Studiolo of Urbino, 81).

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

In this treatise, whose images were inspired by the carte di trionfi, Lazzarelli investigates the wisdom concealed in Greek and Egyptian myths and Christianizes the gods of antiquity. back

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

During this time (1440), the famous Carte di trionfi were painted for Duke Filippo Maria Visconti.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Each "card" presented an allegorical image for use in "play" and memory work, elaborating on the tradition of the trionfi (triumphs or trumps) of Petrarch, in which each image is said to "triumph" over its precedent.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

When Platina, a former soldier, includes chess, dice, and cards among the "right" pleasures for a gentleman, we recognize the influence of these earlier efforts and of Platina's own mentors. 260 During the Congress of Mantua in 1459, Cardinal Bessarion, Nicholas of Cusa, and Pope Pius II "played" with the Carte de trionfi — Platina's "cards with painted pictures."

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Wagon wheels also conjure Petrarch's trionfi and the processional imagery depicted in the Sala dei Mesi of the d'Este, and Piero della Francesca's triumphal diptych of Federico and Battista (ca. 1472), in which the duke and duchess ride on horse - and unicorn-drawn chariots (fig. 6.84).

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

In the first place, Renaissance artists were also goldsmiths, sculptors, architects, military engineers, city planners, and designers of the sugar sculptures called "triumphs" — trionfi.

Women Artists Win! Rowland, Ingrid D. 2008

Alessi, you may find several fine pictures, among them three trionfi in the manner of Botticelli, and a Rubens; while in Palazzo Serra, No. 12, but you may not enter, there is a fine hall.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

This is the earliest example of those trionfi which from the Campo Santo at Pisa to Mantegna and Titian are a favourite theme of Italian art.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

15The Carte di trionfi comprises fifty images, grouped into five decades.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008