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Tarot playing card, representing a Fool, part of the Tarot service belonging to the Visconti-Sforza and realized between 1460 and 1470, now in the Yale University Library, New Haven, CT, USA.
In this instance, the Fool takes on some attributes that are very similar to those of the Wild Man: ragged clothes, disheveled hair and a stick in his hand. The feathers in his hair remember the Fool’s association with birds, frequently recurrent in his iconography (the Fool speaks with the birds and receives messages from them).
On the other hand, the foresight quality which is attributed to this character, according to an ancient tradition, pertains to the birds, which, because of their ability to fly, are regarded as nearer to the divine world.

[Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Visconti-fool.jpg]




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Tarot playing card, representing a Fool, part of the Tarot service belonging to the Visconti-Sforza and realized between 1460 and 1470, now in the Yale University Library, New Haven, CT, USA. In this instance, the Fool takes on some attributes that are very similar to those of the Wild Man: ragged clothes, disheveled hair and a stick in his hand. The feathers in his hair remember the Fool’s association with birds, frequently recurrent in his iconography (the Fool speaks with the birds and receives messages from them). On the other hand, the foresight quality which is attributed to this character, according to an ancient tradition, pertains to the birds, which, because of their ability to fly, are regarded as nearer to the divine world. [Image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Visconti-fool.jpg]