From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
Knight of Wands
Meanings
The adventurer. Confident, competitive, a leader in the making. Enthusiastic and sociable, but with a short attention span. Loves ‘em and leaves ‘em. Speedy travel to exciting, exotic destinations.
Reversed (?)
Beware speed bumps. Someone who just can’t slow down, pelting along at full speed no matter the risk to themselves or others. Could be heading for a fall.
Description
A young man with a finely trimmed moustache and large sensual eyes poses in dark armor. Behind him is a red velvet curtain and a statuette of stag with a rider.
This portrait is thought to be of Christopher "Kit" Marlowe, one of the contenders in the current debate over the Shakespeare authorship question. Marlowe is believed to have been a spy employed by Walsingham.
Recent theories suggest that he wasn't really killed in a drunken bar-room brawl as history books have long recorded, but either assassinated or secretly smuggled to mainland Europe where he lived for many years, perhaps even writing some of the plays attributed to Shakespeare there.
Artwork
- Wand: TIZIANO, Vecellio (Titian), St Christopher, 1524, Palazzo Ducale, Venice.
- Wand leaves: PONTORMO, Jacopo, Cosimo il Vecchio, c.1520, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
- Red curtains: GENTILESCHI, Orazio, Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, 1626-30, Royal Collection, Windsor.
- Table objects: BOEL, Pieter, Large Vanitas Still Life, 1663, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille.
- Armor: BRONZINO, Agnolo, Portrait of Stefano IV Colonna, 1546, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome.
- Face: Unknown Artist, Christopher Marlowe (?) 1585, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
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