From Touchstone TarotTM by Kat Black
The Lovers
Meanings
A blessed partnership. Choices to be made, but a favorable outcome is likely. A mutually beneficial alliance. Balance of the Male and Female – logic and compassion, reason and responsibility.
Reversed (?)
Partnership problems. An important issue with a relationship needs addressing - jealousy, division, incompatible goals or beliefs. Difficult choices to be made.
Description
A young couple stand naked in a landscape. She offers a primitive fruit and looks directly at the viewer. He is bearded, with long unkempt hair. An angel hovers above them, touching them with a blessing. In the distance is a large, snowy mountain peak.
Artwork
- Sky: UDEN, Lucas van, Panoramic River Landscape, 1600s, private collection.
- Mountain: CARIANI, Sacred Conversation, 1524-30, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome.
- Sun: CRESPI, Giovanni Battista, St Gregory Delivers the Soul of a Monk, 1617, S. Vittore, Varese.
- Angel's lower body: ALBANI, Francesco, The Annunciation, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.
- Angel's upper body: RAFFAELLO, Sanzio, Poetry, 1509-11, Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican.
- Angel's face: VOS, Cornelis de, Elisabeth (or Cornelia) Vekemans as a Young Girl, c.1625, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp.
- Eve's body, Adam: EYCK, Jan van, The Ghent Altarpiece, 1425-29, Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent.
- Woman's face: POURBUS, Frans the Elder, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1581, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent.
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The woman looks vaguely like Tilda Swinton, one of my favourite actors.