The first known Trionfi-Painter
His name is connected to the first entry about playing cards in Ferrara (1422), to the present to Bianca Maria in January 1441, with the first use of the name "Trionfi" (1442, also in Ferrara) and beside the Bembo-school in Cremona Sagramoro is the "great Trionfi painter" in the years 1450 - 1456, when Trionfi started to be a well known and much used card deck.
The playing card at the right possibly had been painted by Sagramoro.
The motive is unclear: Fortuna or Chariot?
Fortuna and Chariot might have been part of the Imperatori deck, so this card might be the final fragment of such a deck. In that case the Ferrarese specialist for Imperatori-cards, Piero Andrea de Bonsignore, might have been the artist.
The only biographical information available about Sagramoro comes from the archives published by Franceschini. Sagramoro had a daughter Dorothea, who in 1459 was given title to lands which had been given to her father in 1444 (probably 1459 is the year of Sagromoros death; he made his last will two times, in 1456 and 1457 and was replaced as main courtly Trionfi painter by .
Another source about him is in Giuseppe Campori, 1885, "I pittori degli Estensi nel secolo XV" pp. 538-539, momentary not available.
As painter Sagramoro is recorded to have painted hundreds of heraldic banners (penone) in the accounts of Ferrara, it was his main occupation over the course of his carreer. In Ferrara he was active for more than 30 years mostly in a role as minor artist at the court of the Este until he found some greater acceptance as specialised painter of "Trionfi" card decks since 1450 (or perhaps already since 1442) till 1456. Ortalli mentions, that he was very often employed by the d'Este court, working "on friezes, the decorations of ceilings, walls, tracery as well as court carriages, pennons, crests, flags, nuptial trunks, harnesses, pattern for fabrics and embroidery". The interpretations of the entries about playing cards in the account books is difficult, occasionally it appears, as if Sagramoro were only and mainly occupied with "repairing cards" or "with painting the back of cards" (possibly according to his specialisation on heraldic devices, which were probably the decorations on the backs of the cards dedicated for the courtly use).
Sagramoro is mentioned in the first entry about playing cards in Ferrara in 1422. Sagramoro worked for Parasina and probably had greater insights of the tragedy in 1425. He cooperated with the printer, who appeared around 1337 with a printing-press for playing cards in Ferrara.
Sagramoro painted 14 figures on cotton-paper for Bianca Maria for the amusement in the evening and was paid on 1st January 1441 - a great entry, who might carry the mystery about the invention of the 5x14-deck with 5th trumps-suit. In February 1442 Sagramoro is payed for the production of 4 Trionfi decks - it's the first note about a Trionfi-deck.
Sagramoro became the great Trionfi or Tarot painter in Ferrara in the years 1450 - 56 in high age - probably 5x14-decks. After 1456 the artist Gherardo d'Andrea da Vicenza appears on the scene and it seems, that he took the job of Sagramoro as card-painter. His first production (1457) mentions a Trionfi-deck with 70 cards - probably still a 5x14-deck.