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NICOLA ZAMBONI - IT.
International Tarot Museum©
EMPRESS-HIGH PRIESTESS
Female figure divided into two parts. One represents the Empress with sinuous and feminine lines, the other part, hieratic, evokes the High Priestess. The body is covered with inscriptions taken from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Work created for M. Poltronieri
Technique: terracotta sculpture
EMPRESS-PRIESTESS
FROM THE TAROT MUSEUM OF TOKYO
Tezuka Osamu CHARACTER TAROT & HEART OF GOLD
ATLANTIS AND ASTRALIS
Artist: Massimil-Iano Nicolò
THE AIRES CARDS
Author: Roberta Fonsato Signs and symbols in red and black that evoke universal archetypes.
SANCTA MUERTE TAROT
Artist: Ekaterina Topilskaya
CRISTIAN FINOIA - IT.
GIANNI NOLI - IT.
VIII. Justice
Technique: graphics
ELISA PELLACANI - IT.
IX. Hermit
Mixed technique
VI. Lovers
Technique: graphics
GIANNI COSSU - IT.
ROBERTO GRANCHI - IT.
XII. Hanged
Technique: chalk on cardboard
AURORA GHIELMINI - IT
XVI. Tower
Technique: oil on canvas
XVII. Stars
Technique: painting on fabric
ANDREA FRANZONI - IT.
GLORIA RICCI - IT.
DANIELE PEZZOLI - IT.
Jack of Swords
Technique: graphic on metal
Knight of Swords
Technique: ink
Ace of Swords
Mixed media
VALERIO DE FILIPPIS
MAURO BENDANDI - IT.
ANITA GERLACH - DE.
Page of Pentacles
Mixed media
Ace of Coins
Mixed media
Knight of Pentacles
Technique: watercolor
ROBERTO PAGNANI - IT.
SILVIA TAGLIAFERRI - IT.
Ace of Cups
Mixed media
VINCENZO BUSÀ - IT.
Jack of Clubs
Technique: photo-graphic
Asso di Bastoni
Oil technique
LORENZO PELOSINI - IT.
PAOLO MATTIOLI - IT.
King of Swords
Technique: pastels
RICCARDO BOTTAZZI - IT.
King of Cups
Technique: print on fabric
Knight of Cups
Technique: bas-relief on metal
FRANCESCA RICCI - U.K.
GIOVANNI MONTI - IT.
PAYAL ANIL PADMANABHAN - IND.
XVI. Tower
Technique: graphic
Madman
Technique: collage
XVII. Stars
Technique: pastels
PASQUALE BARILE - IT.
PAOLO MATTIOLI - IT.
V. Papa
Literatarot Europa
Book: In Praise of Folly by Erasmus of Rotterdam
Technique: graphics
X. Wheel of Fortune
Literatarot Europe
Book: Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Technique: graphics
LUCIO MONDINI - IT.
I. The Magician
Technique: graphics
PARIDE CEVOLANI -IT.
ERIC K. LERNER - U.S.A.
VIII. Justice
Technique: acrylic
VI. Lovers
Technique: graphics
CATERINA FORESI -IT.
II. The Popess
Technique: ink on print
TIZIANA BERTACCI - IT.
XI - Strength
Technique: photo
ANTONELLO MANTOVANI - IT.
ALAIN GIANNOTTI
XII. Hanged
Mixed media
V. Papa
Technique: pastels on graphics
G. BARTOLINO
IT.
Fortune Teller
Technique: photo
VITTORE BARONI
IT.
VITO CARTA - IT.
XV. DEVIL
Mailart
I. La Magicien
Technique: Graphics
ANONIMO NAPOLETANO - IT.
I. THE MAGICIAN
Gold and ivory jewel
FLAVIO BERTOZZI - IT.
XV. DEVIL
Test for lamp
SARA ROTTA LORIA - IT.
ELISABETH FROLET - FR.
XXI. WORLD
XV. TEMPERANCE
Outfit for child
technique: graphics
THEREZA CHRISTINA DE AZEVEDO
JACOB
BR.
VERAPONG SRITRAKULKITJAKARN
TH.
THOMAI KONTOU
EL.
II. PAPESSA
Technique: ink on graphic
XIX. SUN
Technique: print and acrylic
FORZA GIUSTIZIA STELLE
Technique: COLLAGE
MARCANTONIO BIBBIANI - IT.
MATTO
Technique: engraving
GIUSEPPE BILLONI - IT.
CLAUDIO SCARANI - IT.
I. THE MAGICIAN
Technique: acrylic
IV. EMPEROR
Technique: engraving and ink
ANNAMARIA GELMI
IT.
MARINA FALCO
IT.
XIII.
Technique: graphics
II. THE HIGH PRIESTESS
Technique: rope on net
MATTEO ARFANOTTI
IT.
VI. LOVERS
Technique: acrylic
MICHAEL DELLA VEDOVA - FR.
XVIII. Moon
Technique: acrylic
K. JEFFREY
CAN.
DEAN SACRED - N.Z.
Knight of Swords
Technique: graphics
XX. JUDGMENT
Technique: Tattoo
JACOB DE CHIRICO
IT.
II. The High Priestess
Mixed media
JO DE DEMONFLIN
FR.
OSVALDO MENEGAZZI
IT.
Tarot de Camargue
Technique: print and pastels
Insects
Box-Sculpture
LYN HOWARTH-OLDS
N.Z.
The Retro Court Cards
Technique: photo
MALA MAYO
N.Z.
Thresholds (Frontiers)
Contemporary architecture and tarot
Technique: photo
WOMEN OF SPIRIT
N.Z.
KATE MILLINGTON
N.Z.
Helen Pollock
Tarot cards
Technique: graphics
XIII. Metamorphosis
Technique: mosaic
KERON SMITH
N.Z.
Moon and Sun
Mixed technique
ROISIN KEARNEY
N.Z.
ISIDE
Designer Roisin Kearney launched her label Roisin Dubh in 1998. Roisin is inspired by the ancient world, legends, folklore, sonnets, poems, and symbols.
Technique: dress
SHERYL SEFTON
N.Z.
DOLL - TEMPERANCE
BALANCE & HARMONY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
Mixed media
THRESHOLDS (Frontiere)
DAMON KEEN
N.Z.
CLAUDIA POND ELYLEY
N.Z.
XXI. The World
Technique: graphics
Last Card
(The last card)
Technique: graphics
DESMA HOWARTH
N.Z.
Knight of Pentacles - Knight of Coins
Technique: Embroidery
CARLOS FLORES ROM
MEX.
Mailart
ELSA DAX
U.K.
LUCILLA CAMPIONI
IT.
QUEEN OF SPADES
Technique: Oil on canvas
THE FOOL
Technique: Engraving
CLEMENTE PADIN
UY.
Mail Art
LAURA CRISTIN - IT.
AMOTAROT
STRADADA
SIBILLE
Performance
the first nominal tarot deck
SILVIA TAGLIAFERRI
IT.
BOOK: UNDER THE JAGUAR SUN BY ITALO CALVINO
ADUA CASTELLUCCI
IT.
GIULIANA CUSINO
IT.
BOOK: EXTREMELY LOUD, INCREDIBLY
CLOSE BY JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
XIV. TEMPERANCE
Technique: Mosaic
XIX. SUN
Literatarot Europa
Technique: Graphics
XVI. THE TOWER
Literatarot Europa
Technique: Raku Ceramics
BIAGIO PANCINO
FR.
XIII. DEATH
TUBER CORROSION
VITO TUMIATI - IT.
PAPA MATTO MORTE BAGATTO
Technique: ENGRAVINGS
EMMA CAMPO
IT.
BOOK: THEODORA BY PAOLO CESARETTI
TIZIANA BERTACCI
IT.
BOOK: THE IMMORTAL BY JORGE LUIS BORGES
II. THE HIGH PRIESTESS
Literatarot Europa
Technique: Acrylic and material inclusions
I. THE MAGICIAN
Literatarot Europe
Technique: Photo
GIOVANNI PELOSINI
IT.
BOOK: PINOCCHIO BY COLLODI
ANDREA FRANZONI
IT.
REVOLT AGAINST THE MODERN WORLD BY JULIUS EVOLA
XII. HANGED MAN
Literatarot Europa
Technique: Photo
IX. HERMIT
Literatarot Europa
Technique: Graphics
OCTAVIA MONACO - IT.
XVII. STARS
LITERATAROT EUROPE
THE FOOL
THE MYSTICAL TAROT
A JOURNEY INTO THE SACRED
Mixed media
Mixed technique
XVIII. MOON
EVOLVED TAROTS
Mixed media
GIOVANNI PELOSINI - IT.
THE VOICES OF THE ARCANA
THE FIRST AND ONLY MUSICAL TAROT DECK
XIV. TEMPERANCE
APPROPRIATE TAROTS
Mixed media
Text by Giovanni Pelosini
Music by Giovannimparato
The Voices of the Arcana are images and sounds, they are speaking symbols to the sensitive beings who have embarked on a path of knowledge. They are the first work that explicitly declares itself as the sonic expression of the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot deck: 22 special spiritual Paths to be read and listened to as meditative journeys in the cosmic Spiral that envelops and involves both individual and universal consciousness.
Sound as an eternal and living Archetype, rhythm as magic, music as the voice of the Tarot have been the subject of a long and complex research by a passionate scholar of esoteric and astrological symbols and an extraordinary musician born in the sunny yet Plutonian sounds of Naples and raised in the sacredness of Afro-Cuban percussion.
THE TAROT PATH
SANTINI DEL PRETE
COLLABORATION
Photopoetry
FULGOR SILVI
IT
XIII. DEATH
GIOVANNI GAGGIA
IT.
III. EMPRESS
GIANCARLO PUCCI
IT.
Mixed technique
V. The Pope - on display The Emperor's Hat - performance
inAGAINST TAROTS
Mixed media
MARCO COTTINI - IT.
LUCIANO BERNASCONI -IT.
RENATO MENEGHETTI
IT.
XII. HANGED
Technique: Graphics
I. The Magician
Technique: Graphics
XV. DEVIL
Mixed media-Graphics-Photo
CATERINA FORESI
IT.
BRUNO CAPATTI
IT.
CATIA PLATE
U.S.A.
XVIII. THE MOON
Technique: Watercolor and pastels
Fool Sun Tower Dead
Technique: Graphics
I. THE MAGICIAN
Technique: Tempera
CRISTIAN FINOIA
IT.
BAGATTO
ENRICO MUSERICH
IT.
CHIARA PERGOLA
IT.
II. THE HIGH PRIESTESS
XV. DEVIL
Technique: Pastels on graphic
Technique: Graphic
Technique: Photocomposition
ROBERTA ATTI - U.S.A.
ARCANA IN CERAMIC
ANONYMOUS - SP.
CARD PLAYERS
ENRICO BAJ - IT.
THE DEVIL
Bronze cast Museo del Prado (Spain)
Mixed technique
AURI CAMPOLONGHI GONELLA - IT
TAROT CARDS
Technique: print
ANNAMARIA FINETTI - IT
GIAN PAOLO DULBECCO - IT.
TAROT AND TOBACCO
THE FOOL
MIXED MEDIA AND PHOSPHORESCENT COLOR
Technique: oil
ROBERTA FULCO - IT.
III. EMPRESS
PIET FRANZEN - NL.
XI. STRENGTH
Graphics
China, pencil, stamp
GONDA DEBRAECKELEER - BE.
The Fool - Dress in recycled paper
SIMONE DE LUCIA
IT.
III. EMPRESS
Graphics
PAOLO CONTE
IT.
X. WHEEL OF FORTUNE
Iron installation
NADIA
IT.
Tarot cards in corn dough
AFRICAN ORACLE CARDS AND INDIAN GANJIFA
DINA VIGLIANISI
IT.
Tarot Magic
Etchings
PATRIZIA GAMBARI
IT.
From the left, the Empress and Justice
Mixed media
MASSIMO CRIVELLO
IT.
COMICS
SAMAR ALMEFA
THE REGENERATION TAROT
DUBAI
A WORK OF CONNECTION BETWEEN TAROT CARDS AND ANATOMICAL PARTS OF THE BODY
TECHNIQUE: PHOTO AND GRAPHICS ON CANVAS
COMPLETE WORK
VII. CHARIOT
XIV. TEMPERANCE
CLAUDIO PARENTELA
IT.
MIXED MEDIA
V. POPE
EVOLVED TAROTS
XX. JUDGMENT
BLUE ARCHETYPE TAROT
XIIII. TEMPERANCE
RAINBOW TAROT
HTTPS://WWW.MUSEODEITAROCCHI.COM/STORE/PRODUCT/D087-I-TAROCCHI-DELLIRIDE
By the same authorTarocchi della Ruota incrociata
https://www.museodeitarocchi.com/store/product/d069-tarocchi-della-ruota-incrociata
Tarocchi Yellow Vortex
https://www.museodeitarocchi.com/store/product/d072-tarocchi-yellow-vortex
Tarocchi delle risate celesti
https://www.museodeitarocchi.com/store/product/d068-i-tarocchi-delle-risate-celesti-the-celestial-la...
LONNIE HUTCHINSON
N.Z.
PIGEON TAROT
Drawing on her knowledge of the rich cultural resources from her Polynesian roots (Maori - Ngai Tahu and Samoan), Lonnie Hutchinson is a visual multimedia artist, performer, and has produced many art installations, which she exhibits throughout Australia and in international group exhibitions.
RONNIE WIBLIN
THE MAGICIAN THE HERMIT THE DEVIL
N.Z
.
.
MUHAMMAD RASFAN
Photo Festival 2005 Malaysia
on the left 'Grand father' Papa
on the right Mamak Teh Tarik - Temperanza
technique: photo
MICHELANGELO BARBIERI
Graphic folder "Death" on the left. On the right, DEATH sculpture on mirror and various materials.
By the same artist, the sculpture TOWER from the CLOUDS series.
MARIA GRAZIA MARTINA
IT.
TarOCCHI the art of "playing" with Time,
II version 2007
made in 22 PostCards, pen drawing G-1 0.7 BLACK
UHU Glitter Glue in burgundy leather cover and black inserts, depicts on the back and front a “temporal eye”.
FRANCO GENTILINI
IT.
THE TAROTS OF GENTILINI
TECHNIQUE: GRAPHICS
OSVALDO MENEGAZZI
MENEGAZZI COLLECTION
INCLUDING: THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY OF A PAINTER'S MANNEQUIN IN 22 ARCANA
SCULPTURE-BOXES
VISCONTI SHOWCASE
ORIENTAL CARDS SHOWCASE
BOLOGNESE TAROCCHINO 1730
MASTER OSVALDO MENEGAZZI IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST ILLUSTRATORS OF TAROT CARDS AND HAS BEEN VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE TAROT MUSEUM, WHICH HOSTS VARIOUS COLLECTIONS. AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE RENEWAL OF ANCIENT ICONOGRAPHY, WITH FANTASTIC, CURIOUS, AND MAGICAL DECKS, MENEGAZZI IS CERTAINLY A PROMINENT FIGURE—A PAINTER, PUBLISHER, AND COLLECTOR WHO, SINCE 1975, HAS REVIVED THE TRADITION OF CARDS AND TAROT WITH ENTHUSIASM AND ORIGINALITY. THERE ARE NUMEROUS DECKS OF CARDS AND TAROT THAT MASTER MENEGAZZI HAS DESIGNED AND PRODUCED IN LIMITED AND NUMBERED EDITIONS (SOME SOLD OUT FOR YEARS, OTHERS HARD TO FIND), MANY OF WHICH HAVE ALREADY LEFT THEIR MARK ON HISTORY. MENEGAZZI HAS LEFT HIS INDELIBLE MARK IN THE ART AND MAGIC WORKSHOP "IL MENEGHELLO," A HISTORIC AND RENOWNED SPACE, A DESTINATION FOR COLLECTORS AND ENTHUSIASTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
CLASSIC TAROTS
SHOWCASE
THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY OF A PAINTER'S MANNEQUIN IN 22 ARCANA
MENEGAZZI COLLECTION
DETAIL
ANDREA PICINI
TAROT
IT.
EMILIO MORANDI
IT.
MIXED MEDIA, INSPIRED BY PERFORMANCE
ur.
22 DRAPED TATTOOED SOULS
BY DOMINIQUE GUILLO
FR.
TECHNIQUE: PHOTO
SHANDRA MC NEILL
U.S.A.
TECHNIQUE: WATERCOLOR
ALMEIDA E SOUSA
POETIC TAROT
PT.
Graphics and photos
RACHEL POLLACK
THE SHINING TRIBE
U.S.A.
TECHNIQUE: PASTELS AND WATERCOLOR ON CARDBOARD
XI. WORLD
IV. THE EMPEROR
XII. THE HANGED MAN
.
LAURIE AMATO
U.S.A.
mixed media
JASON LANG
FRIDA KAHLO DECK
CA.
TECHNIQUE: GRAPHICS
IV. EMPEROR
XIII. DEATH
XVI. TOWER
ARNELL ANDO
U.S.A.
TAROT PINS
TRASFORMATIONAL TAROTS
II. THE HIGH PRIESTESS
GIAMPIERO CASTIGLIONI
IT.
COLLAGE
XVIII. MOON
CRAZY
XXI. WORLD
LUCIANA NESPECA
IT.
ENGRAVINGS
XX. JUDGMENT
XVIIII. SUN
CRAZY
ANISSA MORELLO
N.M.
TAROT BOX
FOOL - LITERATAROT U.S.A. DECK
ANISSA DECK
TAROT TEA
ANISSA MORELLO
N.M.
The artist has collected a series of herbs, creating twenty-two different infusions in analogy with the tarot cards; in addition, they have also made a series of jars containing fragrant herbs, again connected to the arcana, thus combining taste and smell among the sensory aspects.
ANISSA MORELLO
SENSORY TAROT
SMELL
Each jar contains fragrant herbs in analogy to each of the 22 major arcana of the tarot
ORNELLA LAMBERTI
IT.
MIXED MEDIA
XV. DEVIL
IN-COUNTER TAROT
VIII. JUSTICE
EVOLVED TAROTS
XIII. DEATH
APPROPRIATE TAROTS
ERNESTO FAZIOLI
IT.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR: ORACOLI VERDI HTTPS://WWW.MUSEODEITAROCCHI.COM/STORE/PRODUCT/E100-ORACOLI-VERDI
EDDA TAROT HTTPS://WWW.MUSEODEITAROCCHI.COM/STORE/PRODUCT/B089-EDDA-TAROT
STULTIFERA NAVIS HTTPS://WWW.MUSEODEITAROCCHI.COM/STORE/PRODUCT/B092-STULTIFERA-NAVIS-TAROT
MASONIC TAROT (WITH M. POLTRONIERI) HTTPS://WWW.MUSEODEITAROCCHI.COM/STORE/PRODUCT/D088-TAROCCHI-MASSONICI
PEZZETTINI DI CARTE - THE JEWELS OF CARL LARSSON HTTPS://WWW.MUSEODEITAROCCHI.COM/STORE/PRODUCT/C095-PEZZETTINI-DI-CARTE-I-GIOIELLI-DI-CARL-LARSSON#&GID=1&PID=1
TAROT 'AI MARTELLI DI CASA BOLOGNA' HTTPS://WWW.MUSEODEITAROCCHI.COM/STORE/PRODUCT/D070-TAROCCHI-AI-MARTELLI-DI-CASA-DI-BOLOGNA
BOUGUEREAU TAROT HTTPS://WWW.MUSEODEITAROCCHI.COM/STORE/PRODUCT/C092-TAROCCHI-BOUGUEREAU
TREVELYON MISCELLANY TAROT HTTPS://WWW.MUSEODEITAROCCHI.COM/STORE/PRODUCT/B090-TAROCCHI-TREVELYON-MISCELLANY-1608
GÉRÔME TAROT HTTPS://WWW.MUSEODEITAROCCHI.COM/STORE/PRODUCT/C089-G%C3%A9R%C3%B4ME-TAROT
TAROT ALBRECHT DURER HTTPS://WWW.MUSEODEITAROCCHI.COM/STORE/PRODUCT/C088-AD-TAROT-ALBRECHT-DURER
III. EMPRESS
TECHNIQUE: PHOTOCOMPOSITION
VI. LOVERS
From Literatarot Europa
Book: Wuthering Heights by E. Bronte
Technique: graphics
VII. CHARIOT
From the eVoluti Tarot deck
Taken from Appropriate Tarot
Technique: graphics
APPROPRIATE TAROTS
The project
The "Appropriate Tarot" represented a very interesting theme and were present in Bologna later than elsewhere, and not always in verse. Lodovico Frati, in a handwritten list from 1668, recalls: "some ladies were defined with the cards of the Tarocchini game. Lady Cristina of Northumbria was baptized as the Angel and Countess Palmieri Fava as the Devil." Then again: "'The Triumphs of the Appropriate Tarocchini, each assigned to a Bolognese Lady, is composed of two distinct parts: the first part lists the correspondences between the triumphs and the ladies, and the second provides in prose an explanation of the proposed correspondence, sometimes cruel; for example, the Devil is assigned to Countess Baldi 'because of her frightening deformity and ugliness.' This unpleasant composition is preserved in manuscript and was undoubtedly written before 1725, as it includes among the triumphs the 'four Popes'."
From this ancient system of reading comes the "Appropriate Tarot" project. Each of the 22 Major Arcana inspired a poet, Jari Casagrande, who composed lyrics related to each Major Arcana created. In addition, an expert writer in the field, Giovanni Pelosini, curated the presentation of the work.
Artists
Giovanni Monti - Fool
LUCIO MONDINI - MAGICIAN
CATERINA FORESI - HIGH PRIESTESS
MARTINO BARBIERI - EMPRESS
OCTAVIA MONACO - EMPEROR
ALAIN GIANNOTTI - HIEROPHANT
ERIC K. LERNER - LOVERS
CLAIRE SANTI - CHARIOT
PARIDE CEVOLANI - JUSTICE
JARI CASAGRANDE - HERMIT
MARIARITA FRAZZONI – WHEEL OF FORTUNE
TIZIANA BERTACCI – STRENGTH
ANTONELLO MANTOVANI - HANGED MAN
ORNELLA LAMBERTI - DEATH
GIOVANNI PELOSINI - TEMPERANCE
REBECCA D.M. TODD - DEVIL
FRANCESCA RICCI - TOWER
PAYAL ANIL PADMANABHAN - STARS
RITA MINELLI - MOON
ADOLFINA DE STEFANI - SUN
PATRICIA BROWN - JUDGEMENT
FRANCO COLETTI - WORLD
TAROT CHRISTMAS TREE TRUMPS
A CHRISTMAS TREE WITH TAROT CARDS
AN ORIGINAL MAILART PROJECT ORGANIZED BY FRANK JENSEN
D.K.
XIII
XI FORZA
VIIII HERMIT
THE PARFAIT AMOUR TAROT
WILL PARFIT
G.B.
A PHOTOGRAPHIC DECK BY A FAMOUS ENGLISH WRITER WHO DEALS WITH PSYCHOSYNTHESIS AND KABBALAH
YONAH - THE TAROTS
IT.
22 ETCHINGS BY YONAH (MADE FROM 1991 TO 1996) PRINTED WITH GIORGIO UPILIO'S PRESSES IN 2009 IN 49 COPIES ON HAHNEMÜHLE PAPER SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST, MILAN NOVEMBER 2009 COPY 16/49
TECHNIQUE: ETCHING
V. HIEROPHANT
III. THE EMPRESS
IV. EMPEROR
RENATO GUTTUSO
IT.
TAROT CARDS
Seventy-eight cards from the publisher La Traccia of Modena. The work is enclosed in a suitcase and protected by a notarial deed dated December 2, 1972. The Knight of Swords and Cups, the Queen of Cups, and the Fool are signed in original by the artist, while the other cards bear a dry stamp.
Technique: watercolor and tempera
LITERATAROT ASIA
AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT THAT INVOLVED 22 ASIAN ARTISTS INVITED TO CHOOSE A BOOK THAT WAS CONNECTED TO A TAROT CARD
MIXED TECHNIQUES: WATERCOLORS, INKS, PASTELS, ENAMELS, TEMPERA, GRAPHICS, PHOTOS
HTTPS://WWW.MUSEODEITAROCCHI.COM/STORE/PRODUCT/D084-LITERATAROT-ASIA
VII. CHARIOT - CHHAYA GANDHI
IV. EMPEROR - VIDYA NAIK
XIX. SUN - PRASHISH MORE
Literature: Bhagvad Gita
Literature: Shivaji
Literature: Ramayana
LITERATAROT EUROPE
AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT THAT INVOLVED 22 EUROPEAN ARTISTS INVITED TO CHOOSE A BOOK THAT WAS CONNECTED TO A TAROT CARD
MIXED TECHNIQUES: WATERCOLORS, INKS, PASTELS, ENAMELS, GRAPHICS, PHOTOS
HTTPS://WWW.MUSEODEITAROCCHI.COM/STORE/PRODUCT/D082-LITERATAROT-EUROPE
IV. IMPERATORE - ANGELA MALTONI
VII . CHARIOT - FRANK JENSEN
MATTO - MARIA GRAZIA MARTINA
Literature: On the road
Literature: Heart of Darkness
Literature: Rosso Malpelo
LITERATAROT OCEANIA
AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT THAT INVOLVED 22 ARTISTS FROM OCEANIA INVITED TO CHOOSE A BOOK THAT WAS CONNECTED TO A TAROT CARD
MIXED TECHNIQUES: WATERCOLORS, INKS, PASTELS, ENAMELS, GRAPHICS, PHOTOS.
HTTPS://WWW.MUSEODEITAROCCHI.COM/STORE/PRODUCT/D085-LITERATAROT-OCEANIA
VIII. JUSTICE
HELEN A MEINICKE POMERA
XVIII. MOON
SAMAR OCEAN WOLF CIPRIAN
XII. THE HANGED MAN
Literature: Biographia Literaria
Literature: Stradbroke Dreamtime
Literature:
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
EVERY SCENE FROM HIS FILMS HAS ALWAYS REPRESENTED FOR ME A UNIQUE WORK, ALMOST A FRESCO THAT, TOGETHER WITH OTHER SCENES, CREATED A UNIVERSE. I HAVE LOVED HIS WORKS VERY MUCH, BUT I HAVE CHOSEN ONLY A FEW, THOSE MOST CONNECTED TO MY LIFE. THE FRAME I USED IS NOT THE CLASSIC TAROT ONE, BUT RATHER THE PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM, SINCE SOME OF HIS WORKS WERE PHYSICALLY MADE ON FILM, AS FOR EXAMPLE IN PERSONA. TECHNICALLY, I PHOTOGRAPHED THE TELEVISION DIRECTLY WHILE THE FILM SCENES WERE PLAYING. THIS WAY, THE IMAGES WERE CAUGHT BY SURPRISE, IN THE SYNCHRONICITY OF THE MOMENT, JUST AS THE PATH OF THE TAROT IS. IT, BESIDES BEING EVOLUTIONARY, TOUCHES THE GREAT ARCHETYPES OF MAN, AN ELEMENT THAT IN BERGMAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN OBSERVED. ANOTHER CHOICE WAS TO REPRESENT ONLY HUMAN FACES, TRYING TO GIVE EACH ONE THE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE CARD. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ONE, THE STAR, BECAUSE THE 'HIGHER GUIDE' HAS NO FACE. NOR WOULD I OVERLOOK THE MAGICAL ASPECT, IN THE DEEPEST SENSE OF THE TERM, THROUGH WHICH I BELIEVE BERGMAN'S LANTERN IS STILL VIVID AND SHINING.
TECHNIQUE: PHOTOGRAPHY
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR:
TAROCCO BALOCCO: Each Major Arcana corresponds to an ancient game photographed at the Museu de Juguets in Figueres, Spain, thus creating a common thread with the bygone world of childhood.
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MASSONIC TAROTS, TOGETHER WITH ERNESTO FAZIOLI
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INMANI TAROT WITH INK COLORS ON PAPER
TAROT OF LISBON
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ALLEGORICAL TAROTS: A WORK INSPIRED BY THE BOLOGNESE ARTIST BARTOLOMEO CESI
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ANIMAL8 TAROT
MARIA'S TAROT: THE 22 MADONNAS OF MONTSERRAT
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GARGOYLES TAROT
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EGYPTIAN TAROT: A DECK BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE AFTER ALMOST A HUNDRED YEARS OF OBLIVION
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SUBLIME DREAM: TAKEN FROM A 16TH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF GREAT IMPORTANCE FOR KABBALISTIC AND ALCHEMICAL STUDIES.
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TRIBUTE TO GIOVANNI BOLDINI
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SOROLLA TAROT
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MARC CHAGALL TRIBUTE
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MICHELANGELO TRIBUTE TAROT
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LA DANS DES MORTS A BASLE TAROT : INSPIRED BY THE THEME OF THE DANSE MACABRE AND THE IMAGES ARE TAKEN FROM THE HOMONYMOUS BOOK BY HANS HOLBEIN, BASEL, 1820
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TYPUS MUNDI TAROT: INSPIRED BY THE HOMONYMOUS CLASSIC TEXT OF 1598
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EMBLEMATA TAROT: DEDICATED TO EMBLEMS, ESPECIALLY OF AN ALCHEMICAL NATURE, FROM THE 16TH CENTURY TO THE 19TH CENTURY.
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HYPNEROTOMACHIA POLIPHILI TAROT: TAKEN FROM THE HOMONYMOUS WORK. A LOVE STORY BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY FRANCESCO COLONNA. IT WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1499 IN VENICE, WITH REFINED WOODCUT ILLUSTRATIONS IN RENAISSANCE STYLE.
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SYMBOLICAE QUAESTIONES: INSPIRED BY THE HOMONYMOUS WORK OF ACHILLE BOCCHI, 16TH CENTURY
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WITCHES- WITCHES
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FOOL THE SEVENTH SEAL
(THE SEVENTH SEAL)
XIII DEATH THE SEVENTH SEAL
(THE SEVENTH SEAL)
XVIII MOON THE HOUR OF THE WOLF
Just as in the eyes of the jester, the wonder repeats itself. Because pure eyes are needed to see clearly. And only to those who wake up in the morning and discover that the Great Mother from the tales of the past exists... only to them will she reveal herself.
Between the silence of God and death, only one step. And that is what I fear, the step that separates us.
The thin boundary that separates night from day cannot be revealed. Otherwise, it generates monsters. I cannot illuminate the mystery, but I can only perceive its reflection.
LITERATAROT U.S.A.
AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT THAT INVOLVED 22 AMERICAN ARTISTS INVITED TO CHOOSE A BOOK THAT WAS CONNECTED TO A TAROT CARD
MIXED TECHNIQUES: WATERCOLORS, INKS, PASTELS, ENAMELS, GRAPHICS, PHOTOS
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IV THE EMPEROR - TEPPEI ANDO
XII THE HANGED ONE
ELLEN LORENZI-PRINCE
XVII THE STAR
JOANNA POWELL COLBERT
Literature: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Literature: The Descent of Inanna
Literature: Lord of the Rings
CHRISTIAN MILDBRANDT
ANNINA VAN SEBROECK-MECHELEN
DE.
Technique: mailart
BE.
Technique: pastels
XII. HANGED
ANTONELLO MANTOVANI
IT.
Technique: photo on metal
GAETANO VICARI
IT.
Mailart
GIANFRANCO GOBERTI
IT
EVA'S TAROTS
TECHNIQUE: PRINT
HERMANN HAINDL
TAROT
DE.
technique: print
ADOLFINA DE STEFANI TAROT
I. THE MAGICIAN
XI. THE HERMIT
XIV TEMPERANCE
The research in this artistic operation involving the artist Adolfina De Stefani in the representation of the 22 MAJOR ARCANA is aimed at accessing and bringing to light those signals that existential routine hides or does not allow to decipher. This photographic “performance,” with its various facets, becomes an opportunity to activate an intuitive and globalizing logic, which connects minimal elements and symbols in an unusual but exclusively liberating way.
The artist Adolfina De Stefani has put her own body, her own person, her own feelings at stake, shaping the work in all its artistic facets.
One's own body has become a channel for transmitting one's own language, a living and exciting instrument, yet true and unpredictable, contaminating the visual space and involving the viewer in this contamination. The sense that emerges is always strongly emotional. What remains is the symbolic trace, harsh, evocative, revealing to itself those secrets that time has guarded and continues to guard. The strong colors remain, black, red, almost emerging from the gestures or from the body itself as indelible marks of a tormented existence brought to the surface in all its physical matter to rediscover emerging meanings, full of materiality, physicality, and theatricality.
In this representation, the artist lives within themselves the different paths of their art-making, analyzing and translating the ARCANA with a sense of belonging, externalizing tensions, needs, stories, and other lands. They wear them, opening up to dialogue, translating and making the present visible by transforming it into something collective, without codifying, without boxing it into prepackaged meanings, leaving room for interpretation.
EVOLVED TAROT
TWENTY-TWO NATIONALLY RENOWNED ARTISTS HAVE CREATED THESE INNOVATIVE AND UNIQUE TAROT CARDS. THE BOOK DELVES INTO THE DEEPEST MYSTERIES OF THE TAROT, CREATING AN INDISPENSABLE WORK FOR ENTHUSIASTS OF THIS SUBJECT AND A JEWEL FOR EXPERT COLLECTORS. WORKS BY MARCANTONIO BIBBIANI, GIUSEPPE BILLONI, MARINA FALCO, ERNESTO FAZIOLI, CLAUDIO SCARANARI, CLAUDIO PARENTELA, MATTEO ARFANOTTI, TIZIANA BERTACCI, ORNELLA LAMBERTI, JARI CASAGRANDE, PAOLO G. CONTI, JESSICA ANGIULLI, RENATO MENEGHETTI, ANNAMARIA GELMI, SARA ROTTA LORIA, FLAVIO BERTOZZI, MORENA POLTRONIERI, CHIARA D’AGOSTINO, OCTAVIA MONACO, ANNAMARIA GIOIA GIORIO, BARBIERI CALORI MARTINO, ELISABETH FROLET.
Mixed techniques
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IN-AGAINST TAROT
22 ARTISTS - MUSEUM PROJECT
A VERY SPECIAL WORK THAT INVOLVED 46 ARTISTS WHO CREATED THE 22 MAJOR ARCANA, THE COURT CARDS, AND THE ACES. THE PURPOSE OF THIS WORK IS TO REPRESENT THE SHADOW SIDE OF THE TAROT, THAT IS, THE DEEPEST AND DARKEST ASPECT, THROUGH WHICH ONE ENTERS THE SOUL OF THESE SYMBOLS, GAINING AN AWARENESS THAT ALLOWS ONE TO INTEGRATE THIS SHADOW. THE TERM 'CONTRO' MEANS 'CONTRARY, OPPOSITE, CONTRASTING'. A TERM THAT CAN BE DISSOLVED AND RESOLVED THROUGH ENCOUNTER, THAT IS, THE ACCEPTANCE OF ONE'S OWN DARK SIDES, REMEMBERING THAT BY RECOGNIZING THE POISON, ONE CAN ALSO DISCOVER THE ANTIDOTE OF HEALING. ARTISTS: MARIA GRAZIA MARTINA, TIZIANA BERTACCI, EMMA CAMPO, MORENA POLTRONIERI, ANGELA MALTONI, PASQUALE BARILE, ERNESTO FAZIOLI, FRANK JENSEN, GABRIELE CAROLI, ANDREA FRANZONI, PAOLO MATTIOLI, MARTINO BARBIERI, GIOVANNI PELOSINI, MONIA PERULLI, ADUA CASTELLUCCI, MARIA DISTEFANO, GIULIANA CUSINO, OCTAVIA MONACO, MARIA RITA FRAZZONI, SILVIA TAGLIAFERRI, GIOVANNI MONTI, ORNELLA LAMBERTI.
MIXED TECHNIQUES: WATERCOLORS, INKS, PASTELS, ENAMELS, GRAPHICS, PHOTOS.
WORLD
EMPEROR
Catya Plate - U.S.A. - NY.
The twenty-two Arcana have revealed themselves, they have granted their shadow. The encounter has taken place. So open the book of life and leaf through it, study it, learn it by heart if you wish, but then forget it… otherwise you will remain trapped in its subtle plots.
Technique: tempera
Francesco Brunelli - It.
Why Emperor now? Because you will have to deal with power and counterpower, with the politics in which you move and others move around you. Instead, use that sovereign power that makes you unique and unrepeatable, use the authority of your wisdom and fight honestly to assert your ideas... leaving a mark of your command, forever...
technique: wood with inclusions of various materials
STRENGTH
Enrico Musenich - It.
Stop the war. Stop the war, if you want. And this does not mean surrendering or feeling fragile, weak, vulnerable to everything that surrounds us. Do not think that. It is not correct. Everyone has their own race and in your hour it is written: Stop the war, enough with the war, with the blood and the internal struggle that undermines the foundations of your being.
Technique: computer graphic
ALCHEMICAL TAROT
22 ARTISTS TELL THE STORY OF ALCHEMY.
CURATOR MAURIZIO VITIELLO
The curator, the art critic Maurizio Vitiello, has brought together twenty-two contemporary artists who have translated into a modern language a synthesis between tarot and alchemy.
Artists: Luisa Bergamini, Giovanni Boldrini, Arturo Borlenghi, Alessandro Carlini, Chiara (Catalani) & Chiara (Strozzieri), Maria Pia Daidone, Ettore Le Donne, Umberto Esposti, Maria Cristiana Fioretti, Antonio Fomez, Giovanni Lacatena, Giuseppe Antonello Leone, Cesare Lezzi, Franco Lista, Nabil, Romy Nardi, Monica Pennazzi, Alessandro Perinelli, Massimo Pompeo, Clara Rezzuti, Gianni Rossi, Benvenuto Succi
Mixed techniques: watercolors, inks, pastels, enamels, graphics, photos.
HAMLET & MACBETH TAROT
FRANCO COLETTI
IT.
The artist Franco Coletti has created many works for the Tarot Museum: three Shakespearean decks, Macbeth, Hamlet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. In reality, he had already created various decks and, in fact, he himself recalls that the Tarot of D was the unexpected beginning of an adventure that is not yet over. Those first works were followed in a few years by the Black Tarot, the Red ones, and the Green ones, only with the major arcana, all inspired by and dedicated to a special woman; then the first complete deck of
seventy-eight cards, Beyond the Dark Forest, in clear connection with the Divine Comedy. Later, a work dedicated to a little girl was born, who then became the muse for numerous books, Emi, from which the deck Emi in Wonderland was created, also printed for an American audience, Emi in Wonderland, with the images reproduced in the book of the same name. Then a series of cards linked to the poetics Sacred and Profane Love, part of the book of the same title, such as the Cards of Love and Death, plus other decks of major arcana used as illustrations for his numerous books. The Museum owns all the originals of these precious works, and the prints are kept inside artist's boxes made by Osvaldo Menegazzi, so each one represents a unique work of art.
Technique: pastels, watercolors, pencils
Hamlet: https://www.museodeitarocchi.com/store/product/c100-amleto-hamlet-shakespeareland-tarot
Macbeth: https://www.museodeitarocchi.com/store/product/c099-macbeth-shakespeareland-tarot
DAIMON TAROT
JARI CASAGRANDE
IT.
Jari Casagrande, researcher, writer and poet, has created Daimon Tarot, a very unique artistic work, made with handmade paper and images taken from ancient prints, all using the collage technique with
hand-drawn illustrations using various inks. The artist's intent is to create a deep connection with one's own 'daimon'. This term, in religious culture and Greek philosophy, refers to an intermediate being between the divine and the human, with the function of mediating between these two dimensions. In Orphic religion, the daemon is the very essence of the soul, imprisoned in the body for a committed fault from which it seeks to free itself. Each card leads into the mysterious cave that lives within each of us to discover that subtle golden thread taken from reason and given to feeling.
mixed technique: collage, photos, pastels, inks.
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THE TAROT GAME
GIOIA GIORIO
IT.
FOLDER OF ENGRAVINGS ON FINE PAPER MADE IN TEN COPIES
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BY THE SAME ARTIST: GODS AND HEROES THE ARCANA OF THE DEEP FROM GREEK MYTHS
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CONNECTION TAROT
JESSICA ANGIULLI - DISCONNECTED VOICES
IT.
A fanciful and surreal vision of the tarot. Many of the cards, which are numbered and titled in both Italian and English, have been renamed, although the symbolism is easily recognizable. This deck invites the seeker on a mysterious journey through symbolic images, in which Dave McKean's artistic style can be recognized.
Technique: graphics
INTO THE PATH - INTO THE PATH
MARTINO BARBIERI - IT.
THIS IS A WORK CREATED THROUGH SKETCHES DESTINED TO BECOME SCULPTURES. VARIOUS MECHANISMS APPEAR, AS IF THEY WERE THE GEARS OF LIFE. THROUGH THESE DEVICES, SOME FRAGMENTS OF STORIES WERE BORN THAT, STEP BY STEP, LIKE A MOSAIC, CREATED A SINGLE WORK. HTTPS://WWW.MUSEODEITAROCCHI.COM/STORE/PRODUCT/D073-TAROCCHI-ENTROALPERCORSO-INTOTHEPATH-SET-DE-LUX
BARBIERI ALSO CREATED THE TAROT INNER TRANSPARENCIES, A SERIES OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE PLASTIC CASTINGS. FURTHERMORE, SINCE THE ARTIST WAS A REFINED GLASS FOUNDER, THE MUSEUM HOSTS ONE OF HIS BLOWN GLASS SCULPTURES ENTITLED THE EMPRESS'S DRESS. THE VIAL AT THE TOP OF THE SCULPTURE IS SURMOUNTED BY A GOLDEN ROSE, THE PHILOSOPHICAL SYMBOL OF THE ROSICRUCIANS, WHILE INSIDE IT CONTAINS FLOUR: A SYNTHESIS BETWEEN SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL NOURISHMENT.
CRAZY
12. THE HANGED MAN
21. WORLD
BREAKFAST TAROT CARDS
LUNCH TAROT CARDS
MARTINO BARBIERI
Nourishment is the essential basis of life, through which the human being grows and evolves. These works reify the ancient rituals in which ingesting the symbol was equivalent to incorporating it, making it one's own. In fact, the tarot cards are drawn on edible foods such as cookies and crackers, which, once photographed, became real cards... but the originals are on display.
Technique: food coloring on cookies and crackers
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THE PATH OF THE TAROT
AN ILLUSTRATED ESOTERIC FAIRY TALE
FROM PERFORMANCE ... TO TAROT
SANTINI DEL PRETE - GIOVANNI PELOSINI
IT.
The Tarot Path is an esoteric illustrated fairy tale created by Giovanni Pelosini and the Santini Del Prete. It consists of twenty-two photo-poems portraying the Santini Del Prete, famous artistic performers, dressed as railway workers, in scenic poses inspired by the arcana.
Technique: photography and graphics.
AT THE COURT OF MERLIN
GLORIA RICCI
IT.
THE ILLUSTRATOR GLORIA RICCI HAS CREATED A WORK OF TWENTY-TWO MAJOR ARCANA THE THEME IS THAT OF CELTIC SYMBOLISM.
FOR EXAMPLE, THE MAGICIAN IS REPRESENTED BY THE YOUNG MERLIN. THE WORK THEN FOLLOWS THE ANCIENT LEGENDS REPORTED BY THOMAS MALORY, CHRETIEN DE TROYES, AND
THE SAGA OF THE NOVELS OF THE ROUND TABLE COLLECTED BY JACQUES BOULENGE.
TECHNIQUE: INK
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GASTRONOMIC TAROTS
SILVERIO CINERI
IT.
22 particularly original major arcana, conceived by internationally renowned Michelin-starred chef Silverio Cineri - a collector of antique kitchen tools - who commissioned artist Claudia Chiodi to create this work on original antique papers. Each card depicts a gastronomic utensil and is paired with a different recipe.
Technique: ink on antique documents
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BREATH TAROT GIOVANNI MONTI
IT.
The Tarot of Breath by Giovanni Monti was one of the Museum's first publications and immediately attracted international collectors for its originality. Each work is connected to its corresponding vital breath. Much has been said about this highly evocative and expressive deck, capable of awakening primordial hopes and fears while meditating on the images. For example, the Magician is connected to the Infinite Breath, like the countless possibilities opened up by the awareness of possessing infinite tools; the High Priestess, to the Secret Breath, that is, the descent beyond the deception of appearances to know, at the cost of sacrifice, the true essence; the Empress, to the Fertile Breath, capable of generating life, creating beauty and illuminating it with natural light; the Emperor, to the Primitive Breath, as the imposition of personality, instinct to command and protect; the Pope, to the Controlled Breath, that is, the rhythm dictated by the chosen rule, and so on…
Technique: collage
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SUNSET & SUNRISE TAROT
GIOVANNI MONTI
44 cards: 22 connected to dawn (photo on the left. The Magician) + 22 connected to dusk (photo on the right. The Magician)
Tarot of Dawn:
Because each card begins to shed light slowly, until everything becomes clear, when understanding follows knowledge. Tarot of Sunset:
Because the approaching evening brings attention back to things hidden by darkness.
Technique: Collage
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TERRY'S TAROT CARDS
MARIA TERESA MONTI - IT.
When the art of cartomancy meets that of painting. Technique: watercolor and ink
https://www.museodeitarocchi.com/store/product/d077-i-tarocchi-di-terry
TAROT OF THE NEW MOON
MARIA TERESA MONTI
It is a synthesis between miniature and surrealism. The deck was created between 1982 and 1983. It is a refined artistic work that was sought after by several publishing houses, but never published. Furthermore, this deck appears in A Date with Miss Fortune, a Canadian film from 2015, directed by John L'Ecuyer and distributed in Canada in 2016. Seventy-seven painted boards by Maria Teresa Monti are on display, thus the complete deck, except for the Empress.
By the same author, the Tarot of Terry has been published.
Mixed technique: pencil, ink and tempera
TAROT OF FERRARA
MARIA RITA FRAZZONI
IT.
MAGICAL FERRARA TOLD THROUGH THE MAJOR ARCANA OF THE TAROT
TECHNIQUE: PASTELS AND WATERCOLOR
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XIV TEMPERANCE: SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON BY COSMÉ TURA
IV EMPEROR: BORSO D’ESTE
XXI WORLD: SCHIFANOIA PALACE
The court of Borso was the center of the Ferrara School of Painting, to which the greatest artists such as Francesco del Cossa, Ercole de' Roberti, and Cosmè Tura belonged. In Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, he is considered a magnanimous and enlightened ruler. Borso, among other things, ordered the frescoes of the Hall of the Months and commissioned the famous Bible, one of the highest works of miniature painting of the Italian Renaissance.
A gem of the Ferrara Workshop, kept inside the San Romano Museum. Cosmé Tura, in addition to being a painter of great fame, can be considered an initiate who, through art, expressed a mysterious and lunar path, all to be deciphered. The organ shutters he painted appear to be generous, but continue to hide secrets, so that access is not for everyone. An alchemical and esoteric path towards purification and contact with the mythical Hermes Trismegistus, the thrice great author of every magical art…
A whole world lives inside this Palace, where the Hall of the Months is a true talisman of the city. Unique. In the upper part of the fresco, the gods of Olympus appear in the order established by Manilius' Astronomicon. In the middle section are the decans inspired by Eastern culture and distant India. Finally, at the bottom, city life. A world of cultures, all united to celebrate the beauty and magic of Ferrara!
TAROT AT THE TOP - THE TAROTS OF BOLOGNA
MARIA RITA FRAZZONI
Every corner of Bologna becomes a source of inspiration for each of the twenty-two major arcana, thus telling the lesser-known history of the city through the inspiration of the tarot cards. Here are some examples. In the arcana VIII, Justice, the Lambertini Tower appears. Justice discriminates and legislates, but has a thousand eyes capable of spotting the sprouts of new ideas, the most dangerous ones in the villages, on the edges of the streets. Inside the Palatium Novum (Palazzo Re Enzo), or the Palace of Justice, justice was indeed administered. Legend has it that this tower is still inhabited by the presences of the Lambertini family, who sometimes meet with the Captains of the People, usurpers of the ancient residence, and with the ghosts of the women imprisoned there, when from 1327 to 1328 it was a women's prison.
Watercolor technique, pastels
https://www.museodeitarocchi.com/store/product/d079-tarocchi-al-top-i-tarocchi-di-bologna
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