Major Arcana · V
Le Pape
from The Conver Tarot de Marseille, blocks of 1760; this printing c. 1809-1833
The pope, in a triple crown and holding a triple-barred cross, raises a blessing over two tonsured clerics seen from behind, two columns at his back. Makers in Besançon and beyond later swapped Pope and Popess for Jupiter and Juno to duck offense; the Marseille shops kept them.
Nearby in the deck
