From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
Eight of Coins
Meanings
Practice makes perfect. Skills mastered by repetition. Talent is nothing without application. Keep at it and one day you will be a master at your craft.
Reversed (?)
The impatient apprentice. No skill worth learning can be mastered overnight. Natural ability and talent will only get you so far, tools take time to become part of your hand.
Description
A bearded man in plain black robes and a cap sits at a work table surrounded by instruments, measuring angles. A book with a red cover sits at his side, with a place marked with a wooden instrument.
Artwork
- Coin: ANGELICO, Fra, Annunciation, 1433-34, Museo Diocesano, Cortona.
- Coin profile: BALDOVINETTI, Alessio, Portrait of a Lady in Yellow, c.1465, National Gallery, London.
- Green wall: DÜRER, Albrecht, Portrait of a Cleric, 1516, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- Craftsman: HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger, Portrait of Nikolaus Kratzer, 1528, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
- Bearded face: HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger, Portrait of a Member of the Wedigh Family, 1533, Staatliche Museen, Berlin.
- Book and square: HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger, Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve (The Ambassadors), 1533, National Gallery, London.
He looks like he enjoys his work, which is a kind of wealth.