The Celestial Figures
Iupiter, Jupiter
Jupiter enthroned in a mandorla.
- Work
- from the E-series Tarocchi
- Plate
- XXXXVI
- Maker
- Master of the E-Series Tarocchi
- Date
- c. 1465
- Source
- National Gallery of Art, Washington · scan: Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source plate — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Jupiter sits crowned inside an almond-shaped glory, an eagle perched above him and small figures kneeling below. The card is number forty-six of the set of fifty engravings made in Ferrara around 1465 and later called the Tarocchi of Mantegna, though Mantegna had nothing to do with them. The planets each have a card, and Jupiter, the kindly one, gets the most stately. The fine, silvery line is typical of early Italian engraving.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
Iupiter, Jupiter printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate — from the E-series Tarocchi (1465), held by National Gallery of Art, Washington · scan: Wikimedia Commons. The work was published before 1931 and is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper; framed pieces sit behind acrylic, no mat.
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans available, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the emblem line, the letterpress bite, the registration of colour — on stock made to outlive its owner.
