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| "The Barrel" Loteria Card |
Card #9 for "The Pope's Deck" or "Baraja del Papa"
This painting is one of a series of 58 images which will be published as a special loteria deck upon completion. Loteria is game popular in Mexico and the Southwest, similar to bingo. Each card of the deck has an image of a common scene or basic household item. For this reason, the images that appear in a deck of loteria cards are instantly recognizable to the players.
This deck will have the addition of four suits and numbering markers in the upper right corners which will allow them to be used for most American card games.
The images appearing in this deck are based on descriptions of the only deck of loteria cards blessed by the Catholic Church. In 1785, Pope Pius IV consecrated a specifically commissioned deck of cards for missionary work in the New World. Of those decks, only four are assumed to still be in existence, and none have been made available for viewing. However, the documents which organized and defined the images which would later be created for this project are part of the public domain and it is from this source that I am attempting to recreate the original deck of cards.
Further online information about this project can be found at the Sandow Studios website or the information page about the artist.
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