jueves, 27 de septiembre de 2007

Cartas de Juego.



En este sitio web pueden ver una interesante coleccion de cartas antiguas. Su historia y la de sus autores.

Las primeras cartas eran pintadas a mano, construidas y diseñadas para ser objetos hermosos. Los packs de cartas eran mencionados en testamentos y en inventorios, y dados como regalos de bodas, entonces se consideraban de alto valor y preciosas. No solo las cartas eran creadas y pintadas en muchos colores, y no eran meramente decoradas con tramas ornamentales, pero sus diseños mostraban gran talento artístico, armonia de color y gracia en las formas.

// In this website you can see a very interesting collection of antique playing cards.

Their history and the one of their artists. The earliest playing cards were hand-painted, often gilded, and designed to be beautiful objects. Packs of cards were mentioned in wills and inventories, and given as wedding presents, so would have been considered valuable and precious. Not only were cards gilded and painted in many colours, and not merely decorated with ornamental patterns, but often the designs themselves showed great artistic skill, harmony of colour and grace of forms.

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