Detailed Commentary of Charles VI Tarot Curated by Marco Benedetti Handcrafted

This is a 2nd video showcasing the Marco VI curated by Marco Benedetti. I would consider this deck an essential deck in a collector's arsenal.

This video is much more intelligent than the first one I did. In my original showcasing I was so excited to receive the deck I just did an impulse review, but this one is much more insightful.

Here is the information that Marco sent me on this deck:

From Marco:

I printed all the existing Florentine illuminated cards, nthat is: Charles VI, Ercole D'Este, Alessandro Sforza and 2 decks in Rothschild collection.

Charles VI has 16 Majors and Page of swords

Majors are:
Il Matto
L'Imperatore
Il Papa
L'Amore
La Temperanza
La Giustizia
La Forza
Il Carro
L'Eremita
L'Impiccato
La Morte
La Folgore
La Luna
Il Sole
L'Angelo
Il Mondo

Cards had a numer on top one day, but it has been partially trimmed; on top of Chariot you may see the lower part of a X, 10 in roman numbers. So the deck had a florentine sequence.

Ercole D'Este Deck had 8 majors and 8 court cards.
I used the Bagatto, mirrored.
The other 7 are:
Il Matto
Il Papa
La Temperanza
La Stella
La Luna
Il Sole
Il Mondo

Court cards:
King of Spades (not used)
Queen of Spades (Changed to Coins)
Knight of Spades  (Changed to Coins)
Knight of Wands  (Changed to Cups)
Queen of Wands (Not used)
Page of Wands
Queen of Cups
King of Coins (Changed to Cups)

Alessandro Sforza deck has 5 Majors (4 in Catania and 1 in Palermo), 2 court and 10 pip cards
I Used the Imperatrice
the other 4 are:
Il Matto (A naked woman sitting on the back of a stag, formerly believed to be Temperanza)
Il Carro
L'Eremita
Il Mondo

Court cards are:
King of Swords (Believed to be AS portrait)
Page of Cups

The deck shared by Rothschield collection and Museum in Bassano del Grappa ha 1 Imperatore (not used) and 8 court cards:
Queen of Spades
Knight of Spades
King of Wands
Queen of Wands
Knight of Wands
Page of Wands (Not used)
King of Coins
Page of Coins

The deck shared by Rothschield collection and Museum Correr in Venice has 27 pips.

The 40 pips had been digitally created based mostly on Rothschield/Correr deck, but Spades and Wands have the colors modified like in AS deck.

We still miss 4 Majors: Papessa, Ruota della Fortuna, Diavolo and Stella.
Actually, we'd have the beautiful Ercole D'Este Star, but this card is part of a Star-Moon-Sun sequence that has its own unity - I like to think that the 3 cards of Ed'E are an allegory of astronomy, astrology and philosophy (Sun characters are Alexander the Great and Diogenes) - and in any case it has the same subject as the Moon of Charles VI.
It seems obvious to me that Charles VI is the prototype of the Bolognese Tarot, which we should therefore take as a model for the missing cards.
So, for the Star I used the oldest existing sample in Bolognese style, that is the BAR sheets, which I also used for the Wheel of Fortune.
Devil: the single card by Agnolo Hebreo (British Museum).
The Popess  is the only exception to Florentine decks, I used the Visconti Popess of the Fournier Museum, to whom I replaced the cross with a key.