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Iliaco

from The Mantegna Tarocchi, c. 1465

A winged youth in a short tunic holding up a sun with a face in it, walking before a hedge of trees, a few tufts of grass at his feet. Iliaco, the genius of the sun or of light, opens the fourth group, lettered B, which gives three cosmic spirits followed by the seven virtues. The three genii have no exact precedent anywhere, and their meaning is still discussed.

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