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XIX - the Sun
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A baby wearing a plumed hat rides a horse in a walled garden. A gilt sun beams down, and a long white banner flutters in the wind.

My Interpretation: Make hay while the Sun shines. This is a period of material and spiritual prosperity - make the most of it. Fruitfulness and bounty can be yours, but take care to keep stock for less fortunate times. (Reversed: This is still an indicator of success, but perhaps a little tainted with arrogance or impatience at any little bump along the path)

Edit notes to self: I've abandoned my original version and based the composition of this card very literally on the Rider-Waite card. Still to do - pretty happy with it.

Sources:

Base Pic: Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter (b. 1431, Isola di Cartura, d. 1506, Mantova); Suite of Cardinal Francesco 1471-74 Fresco Camera degli Sposi, Ducal Palace, Mantua.

Sun Beams: Benozzo Gozzoli, Italian painter, Florentine school (b. cca. 1420, Firenze, d. 1497, Pistoia); Triumph of St Thomas Aquinas 1471 Tempera on panel, 230 x 102 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Baby: Vitale da Bologna, Italian painter, Bolognese school (b. 1289/1309, Bologna, d. 1359/69, Bologna); Madonna 1345 Tempera on wood, 155 x 73 cm Museo Civico d'Arte Industriale, Imola.

Sun Face and Halo: Simone Martini, Italian painter, Sienese school (b. 1280/85, Siena, d. 1344, Avignon); St Elisabeth, St Margaret and Henry of Hungary 1318 Fresco, 120 x 228 cm Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi.

Wall: Dieric Bouts the Elder, Flemish painter (b. cca. 1415, Haarlem, d. 1475, Leuven); The Execution of the Innocent Count c. 1460 Oil on wood, 324 x 182 cm Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.

White Sheet: Possibly Paulo Uccello, Italian painter, Florentine school (b. 1397, Firenze, d. 1475, Firenze); Faith c. 1435 Fresco Chapel of Our Lady of the Assumption in Prato Cathedral, Duomo, Prato.

Plumed Hat: Benozzo Gozzoli, Italian painter, Florentine school (b. cca. 1420, Firenze, d. 1497, Pistoia); Procession of the Middle King (south wall) 1459-60 Fresco Chapel, Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence.

Flowers: Pisanello, Italian painter (b. 1395, Pisa, d. 1455, Roma); Portrait of a Princess of the House of Este 1436-38 Tempera on wood, 43 x 30 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Sky: Antonello da Messina, Italian painter, Southern Italian school (b. cca. 1430, Messina, d 1479, Messina); St Sebastian 1476-77 Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 171 x 85.5 cm Gemäldegalerie, Dresden.

Parchment Text Panel: Unknown Illuminators, England; The Aberdeen Bestiary (Aberdeen University Library MS 24), written and illuminated around 1200. Aberdeen University, Scotland.

Gilt Border: Conrad Witz, Swiss painter (b. cca 1400, Rottweil, d. cca. 1445, Basel); King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba 1435 Panel, 84 x 79 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin.