I’ve been struggling to make sense of it. The white queen is the Roman goddess Fotruna and the only depictions of her with a bared breast I’ve found are modern art. Usually a bared breast is either meant to represent nurturing/charity or an indication of sexual violence.
Sure, it could mean be a symbol of her being nurturing, but in the context of this set, I wonder if it is a reference to Nazi depictions of ancient mythology such as the Night of the Amazons where they used a warped image of the mythology to display women naked amidst their “master race” propaganda. Fortuna was also popular in Germany at the time given Carmina Burana was written in the 1930s.
Ultimately I came to the same conclusion about decadence as you, but I’m not sure if there is anything more to the symbolism than that.
Found an auction site that lets you zoom in on these in high resolution. Check out the details!
Does anyone know the significance of the white queen baring a breast? Weird detail I noticed on that super high quality image.
Probably calling out the western art as decadent, the palaces of aristocracy were full of it.
I’ve been struggling to make sense of it. The white queen is the Roman goddess Fotruna and the only depictions of her with a bared breast I’ve found are modern art. Usually a bared breast is either meant to represent nurturing/charity or an indication of sexual violence.
Sure, it could mean be a symbol of her being nurturing, but in the context of this set, I wonder if it is a reference to Nazi depictions of ancient mythology such as the Night of the Amazons where they used a warped image of the mythology to display women naked amidst their “master race” propaganda. Fortuna was also popular in Germany at the time given Carmina Burana was written in the 1930s.
Ultimately I came to the same conclusion about decadence as you, but I’m not sure if there is anything more to the symbolism than that.
Those red ships are one of the cutest chess pieces i ever seen.