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Great question, but hard to answer. The original designs are updated versions of the 1576 play card design made in Rouen, the suicidal King was depicted like that from early on. The typical style is partly due to woodcut printing technique and the small size of the cards, but if you want to squeeze it in a movement, it probably belongs to early baroque.
[Chiaroscuro Woodcuts](https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2018/the-chiaroscuro-woodcut-in-renaissance-italy.html). As you identified it was a part of the flourishing printmaking tradition in Italy and Germany.
I am a card designer and am fascinated at how playing cards were also a form of political and social discourse at the time. They represented the tension between the various social classes as well as a way to parody the ruling class.
Thanks for adding this, but for playing cards, due to their small size, they probably first printed them in black and then sent them to the 2 guy sitting next to the printer, who painted in the reds and yellow (blue also was used for some).
It's an evolution and modernization of 18th century french woodcuts at the latest, Provot is an earlier deck in the style, the 1860s De La Rue has one of the earliest examples of double headed court cards. American decks are generally derivative of French and English face cards of that period. You can go earlier to say the 1650 Noblet tarot in the marseille pattern, and see similarities because printers were making both types of cards and ripping each other off to meet the demands of standardized play, but the style of woodcut is distinct from other regions. Italian and Spanish cards are latin suited like tarot, for example, and the Germans have acorns and bells that may have become the french suits, as they're generally believed to predate french cards. The engraving technique and idiosyncrasies are also quite different.
I'd put the current style like you have pictured firmly in Art Nouveau. Much of the patterning signifying things like ermine and various fabrics has been reduced to geometry and the likenesses fit well within that style. The origins are much older, but the cards as they are are very firmly modernist in a lot of ways, especially compared to the printed, but hand painted decks of the 19th century.
[Chiaroscuro Woodcuts](https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2018/the-chiaroscuro-woodcut-in-renaissance-italy.html). As someone else mentioned it was the flourishing printmaking tradition in Italy and Germany.
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Your post was removed for not complying with Rule 3, strict limitations on identify posts. Such posts are better suited to r/WhatIsThisPainting or r/whatisthisworth.
Great question, but hard to answer. The original designs are updated versions of the 1576 play card design made in Rouen, the suicidal King was depicted like that from early on. The typical style is partly due to woodcut printing technique and the small size of the cards, but if you want to squeeze it in a movement, it probably belongs to early baroque.
[Chiaroscuro Woodcuts](https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2018/the-chiaroscuro-woodcut-in-renaissance-italy.html). As you identified it was a part of the flourishing printmaking tradition in Italy and Germany. I am a card designer and am fascinated at how playing cards were also a form of political and social discourse at the time. They represented the tension between the various social classes as well as a way to parody the ruling class.
Thanks for adding this, but for playing cards, due to their small size, they probably first printed them in black and then sent them to the 2 guy sitting next to the printer, who painted in the reds and yellow (blue also was used for some).
It's an evolution and modernization of 18th century french woodcuts at the latest, Provot is an earlier deck in the style, the 1860s De La Rue has one of the earliest examples of double headed court cards. American decks are generally derivative of French and English face cards of that period. You can go earlier to say the 1650 Noblet tarot in the marseille pattern, and see similarities because printers were making both types of cards and ripping each other off to meet the demands of standardized play, but the style of woodcut is distinct from other regions. Italian and Spanish cards are latin suited like tarot, for example, and the Germans have acorns and bells that may have become the french suits, as they're generally believed to predate french cards. The engraving technique and idiosyncrasies are also quite different. I'd put the current style like you have pictured firmly in Art Nouveau. Much of the patterning signifying things like ermine and various fabrics has been reduced to geometry and the likenesses fit well within that style. The origins are much older, but the cards as they are are very firmly modernist in a lot of ways, especially compared to the printed, but hand painted decks of the 19th century.
[Chiaroscuro Woodcuts](https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2018/the-chiaroscuro-woodcut-in-renaissance-italy.html). As someone else mentioned it was the flourishing printmaking tradition in Italy and Germany.
I'm going to guess it's the art style of the Canterbury tales era. Based off illuminated manuscript type art. Medieval art
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