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VERSION 2.0 IN PROGRESS

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Three of Swords
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A woman kneels with her arms crossed on a plinth decorated by gargoyles. She looks grief-stricken, and holds a small book. In the dark stormy sky above her floats a large brocade heart pierced by three swords.

My Interpretation: Melancholy and a broken heart. Misery, sorrow and grief at the end of an affair or friendship. But take heart, time will ease the pain. (Reversed: Dwelling on past sorrows may prevent you from moving on. Let go of the past, and the confusion and distress may disappear).

Edit notes to self: Different to v1.0 card as I've made it a bit more similar to the Rider-Waite card of a heart pirced by three swords in a stormy sky. I have added a grief-stricken woman and a plinth adorned with gargoyles. Still to do: quite happy with it.

Sources:

Base Pic: Giotto di Bondone, Italian painter, Florentine school (b. 1267, Vespignano, d. 1337, Firenze); Annunciation: The Virgin Receiving the Message 1306 Fresco, 150 x 195 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua.

Red Clouds and Plinth: Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. cca.1440, Seligenstadt, d. 1494, Bruges); Last Judgment Triptych (open) 1467-71 Oil on wood, 221 x 161 cm (central), 223.5 x 72.5 cm (each wing) Muzeum Narodowe, Gdansk.

Shape of Heart: Unknown Flemish Master, (early fifteenth century in Arras); The Offering of the Heart c. 1410 Tapestry Musée de Cluny, Paris.

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

Swords: Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. cca.1440, Seligenstadt, d. 1494, Bruges); The Archangel Michael c. 1479 Oil on wood, 37 x 16 cm Wallace Collection, London.

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.