![]() ![]() Waite for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1910. The illustration of the tarot card "The Magician" from the Rider–Waite tarot deck was developed by A. The baton was later changed to represent a literal magician's wand. ![]() The fourth, the baton (Clubs) he holds in his hand. The essentials are that the magician has set up a temporary table outdoors, to display items that represent the suits of the Minor Arcana: Cups, Coins, Swords (as knives). The curves of the magician's hat brim in the Marseilles image are similar to the esoteric deck's mathematical sign of infinity. In esoteric decks, occultists, starting with Oswald Wirth, turned Le Bateleur from a mountebank into a magus. In the painted cards attributed to Bonifacio Bembo, the Magician appears to be playing with cups and balls. Visually the 18th-century woodcuts reflect earlier iconic representations, and can be compared to the free artistic renditions in the 15th-century hand-painted tarots made for the Visconti and Sforza families. The Mantegna Tarocchi image that would seem to correspond with the Magician is labeled Artixano, the Artisan he is the second lowest in the series, outranking only the Beggar. The Italian tradition calls him Il Bagatto or Il Bagatello. In French Le Bateleur, "the mountebank" or the " sleight of hand artist", is a practitioner of stage magic. Le Bateleur from Oswald Wirth's 1889 tarot deck ![]()
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