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VERSION 2.0 IN PROGRESS

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Knight of Coins
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A knight sits on a heavy brown horse on a headland. He holds a flag and looks up at a large coin floating in the sky. A muzzled white dog looks back at him.

My Interpretation: A slow, plodding but reliable man. Someone who will stick with a project no matter how long it takes to complete it. Responsible, reliable and pragmatic. He is honourable and reliable, and keen to assist. Travel is likely. (Reversed: A dull person, whose pedantic pettiness means that he achieves very little)

Edit notes to self: Different to v1.0 card as I've swapped pictures around and added more symbolism to assist readers. This card is now more similar to the Rider-Waite card, hopefully easily recognisable as both Knight and Coin are fairly obvious. Still to do - pretty happy with it. I'd like to add a snail, I know I've seen one somewhere but can't find it again!

Sources:

Base Pic: Jan Van Eyck, Flemish painter (b. before 1395, Maaseik, d. 1441, Bruges); The Ghent Altarpiece: The Soldiers of Christ 1427-30 Oil on wood, 149.2x 54 cm Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent

Face: Master of the Avignon School, French painter (middle of the 15th century); Vision of Peter of Luxembourg c. 1450 Panel, 78 x 58 cm Musée Calvet, Avignon.

Green Plume: Vittore Carpaccio, Italian painter, Venetian school (b. 1472, Venezia, d. 1526, Capodistria); The Ambassadors Depart 1495-1500 Oil on canvas, 280 x 253 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.

Helmet: Pietro Lorenzetti, Italian painter, Sienese school (b. cca. 1280, Siena, d. 1348, Siena); Crucifixion 1320 Fresco Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi.

Rocky Landscape: Jan Van Eyck, Flemish painter (b. before 1395, Maaseik, d. 1441, Bruges); The Ghent Altarpiece: The Just Judges 1427-30 Oil on wood, 145 x 51 cm Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent.

Ground: Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter (b. 1431, Isola di Cartura, d. 1506, Mantova); The Adoration of the Shepherds c. 1451-53 Tempera on canvas tranferred from wood, 40 x 55.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Sky: Paulo Uccello, Italian painter, Florentine school (b. 1397, Firenze, d. 1475, Firenze); St. George and the Dragon c. 1456 Oil on canvas, 57 x 73 cm National Gallery, London.

Coin: Master Theoderic, Bohemian painter (active 1350-70 in Prague); Painting of a Saint 1360-65 Tempera on Wood National Gallery, Prague.

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.