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For more information about how some of these games were played, see these links. You can also find rules for these and other games. See also Art History of Cheating for additional related artworks.
- Men playing cards, Roman du Roy Meliadus de Leonnoys (British Library MS Add. 12228, fol. 313v), c. 1352
- Playing Card: The Ship, a 15th century Italian illuminated parchment tarot card
- A handpainted playing-card with falcons, c. 1427-1431
- Playing-cards from the Upper Rhine, c. 1430: a man and a woman
- The playing cards of the Master of the Playing-Cards, c. 1430-1460
- Fresco of a card game at the Casa Borromeo by Pisanello, c. 1440
- Deck of cards (Ambraser Hofjagdspiel), Upper Rhine, c. 1440-1450
- The Emperor, The King of Coins, The King of Batons, The Queen of Batons, The Page of Batons, and the Queen of Swords, from a 15th century set of tarot cards
- The Queen of Swords from the Visconti-Sforza tarot cards, c. 1450
- Deck of cards (Hofämterspiel), Vienna, c. 1455 (also here)
That no Lorde, nor other persone of lowere astate, condicion or degree, whatsoever he be, suffre any Dicyng or pleiyng at the Cardes within his hous, or elles where he may let it, of any of his servauntes or other, oute of the XII days of Christmasse. Rolls of Parliament 5.488a, 1461
- Two playing-cards, c. 1465-1475
- Men playing card-games and dice-games, Facta et dicta memorabilia (BNF Fr. 289, fol. 318), second half of the 15th century
- Detail from The Sermon of John Capistrano, c. 1465-1475
- Set of 52 playing cards, southern Netherlands (Burgundian territories), c. 1470-1480
- Avarice and Generosity, The City of God (Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève MS 246, fol. 3v), c. 1475
- A card game, Schachzabelbuch (ÖNB 3049, fol. 163v), 1479
- Woodcut for playing cards, late 15th century (V&A E.988-1920)
- Tapestry: A tent with a pair of lovers playing cards, c. 1495
- Ball with the Duke of Bavaria by Matthäus Zasinger, 1500
- An outdoor feast, Southern Germany, c. 1500-1530
- Card Players, 1520; This article suggests that they may be playing primero or pair et sequence.
- January and May murals, Die Augsburger Monatsbilder, Germany, 1520s. One of the knights in the tournament-scene in the February section rides a horse caparisoned all in playing cards.
- Lockere Gesellschaft by Jan Sanders van Hemessen, c. 1545-1550
Cards are stacked under a goblet in the foreground.
- Three card-players by Niccolò dell' Abate
- Satire of the merchant's greed by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, c. 1550-1560
- Two playing-card fragments, c. 1550-1600
- A family playing games by Hans Bol, 1583
- Silver playing-cards made in Augsburg c. 1595-1600
- The Cardsharps by Caravaggio, 1596
- Playing cards, 16th-17th century: 014161, 014163, 014164, 014165
- A game of cards
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