Tarot of the Renaissance
Art
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<p><span>78 cards + a title card and advertising card + a small fold-out guide in a standard cardboard tuck box.</span><br /><br /><span>The cards measure 12 cm tall x 6.6 cm wide. The card stock is very flexible, with a smooth, matte finish. This deck could easily be riffle-shuffled without damage.<br /><br />The card backs are fully reversible.<br /><br />Justice is VIII and Strength is XI. The Fool is numbered 0.<br /><br />Suits are Pentacles, Chalices, Swords, and Wands. The court cards are Knave, Knight, Queen, and King.<br /><br />The minor arcana are scenic, but do not align with any specific system. In some cases, the suit symbols are integrated into the scene, but in other cases the suit symbols are floating above or over the scene.<br /><br />The cards are titled in 5 languages. As with other Lo Scarabeo decks of this period, the fold-out guide is only in English. <br /><br />On a personal note, I have a sentimental fondness for this deck as it was among the first 40 or so I ever purchased. I bought it during a Llewellyn sale, when many Lo Scarabeo titles were on sale for $5 each.<br /></span></p>
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Trevisan, Giorgio
Lo Scarabeo
© 2000
78 cards
Multilingual
Other / Mixed
ISBN 9780738700557
Crystal Tarot
Art--Gustav Klimt
<span>78 cards + a title card and advertising card + a small fold-out guide in a standard cardboard tuck box.</span><br /><br /><span>The cards measure 12 cm tall x 6.6 cm wide. The card stock is very flexible, with a smooth, matte finish. This deck could easily be riffle-shuffled without damage.<br /><br />The card backs feature a reversible blue and white design with peacocks.<br /><br />The fold-out guide ascribes non-traditional titles to each of the major aracana; however, the cards themselves bear the traditional titles.<br /><br />Balance (<em>Justice</em>) is VIII and Energy (<em>Strength</em>) is XI. Madness (<em>The Fool</em>) is numbered 0.<br /><br />Suits are Pentacles, Chalices, Swords, and Wands. The court cards are Knave, Knight, Queen, and King.<br /><br />The minor arcana are decorative pips; they are very beautiful, but not at all scenic. There's no specific, discernable theme to this deck, but the fold-out guide mentions that it is influenced by the art of Gustav Klimt.<br /><br />Because of the non-scenic minors, I think it would be possible to use TdM meanings/methods to read with this deck.<br /><br />The cards are titled in 5 languages, but the the fold-out guide is only in English. This seems to be the case with other Lo Scarabeo decks from this same period; I'm not sure if they produced multiple versions of deck guides in other languages for different markets or not.<br /></span>
Trevisan, Elisabetta
Lo Scarabeo
<span class="st">© 2000<br /></span>
78 cards
Multilingual
Other / Pips
ISBN 9780738700588
Tarot of the Gnomes
Gnomes
Fantasy art
<span>78 cards + a title card and advertising card + a small fold-out guide in a standard cardboard tuck box.</span><br /><br /><span>The cards measure 12 cm tall x 6.6 cm wide. The card stock is very flexible, with a smooth, matte finish. This deck could easily be riffle-shuffled without damage.<br /><br />The card backs are fully reversible.<br /><br />Justice is VIII and Strength is XI. The Fool is numbered 0.<br /><br />Suits are Pentacles, Chalices, Swords, and Wands. The court cards are Knave, Knight, Queen, and King.<br /><br />The minor arcana feature small scenes along with a suit symbol and number, with descriptive titles. For example, the 6 of Pentacles depicts a dragon sitting atop its hoard, and the title is Treasure. The 8 of Wands depicts a gnome falling off a unicycle, and the title is Accident.<br /><br />Though the cards don't follow any specific traditional tarot system, because the scenes align so tightly to the titles, this deck could be used by anyone.<br /><br />The cards are titled in 5 languages. The fold-out guide is only in English. I wonder if the guide was printed in different languages for different markets? <br /></span>
Lupatelli, Antonio
Lo Scarabeo
© 2000
78 cards
Multilingual
Other / Mixed
ISBN 9780738700571
Tarot of Casanova
Renaissance
Architecture
Italy
Erotica
Casanova
78 cards + a title card and an advertising card, with a multi-lingual LWB in a standard cardboard tuck box.
Cards measure 12 cm tall x 6.6 cm wide.
Backs are reversible.
The card stock is flexible, with a very smooth, matte finish.
Justice is VIII (8) and Strength is XI (11). The Fool is numbered 0.
The card titles are printed in six languages.
Suits are Chalices, Wands, Swords, and Pentacles. Courts are Knave, Knight, Queen, and King.
The minors are scenic and many depict nude women and sexual acts.
This deck is part of the Tarocchi d'Arte series (as stated on the title card).
Note: The fact that the Death card isn't the first one shown in this case is deliberate, because of the nature of the scene.
Raimondo, Luca
Lo Scarabeo, Italy
LS
2006 (c)
78 cards
Multi-lingual
Other
978-8883951411
Manara Erotic Tarot
Eroticism
Sex
Art
78 cards + a title card and an advertising card, with a multilingual LWB. I own the "Deluxe" edition, which means that it came with a red drawstring bag (to house the cards) and both the deck and bag fit into a larger-than-normal cardboard tuck box.
The cards in the Deluxe edition are no different from that of the standard edition.
Cards measure 12 cm tall x 6 cm wide.
Card backs are reversible.
The card stock is flexible, with a smooth, matte finish.
Suits are Water, Earth, Fire, and Air. Courts are Knave, Knight, Queen, and King.
Justice is 8 and Strength is 11. The Fool is numbered 0. Two of the majors have non-traditional titles -- X (10) is The Mirror and XII (12) is The Punishment.
The minors are scenic and often depict scenes with full nudity and explicit sexual acts.
The cards are numbered/titled in 5 languages.
This deck is part of the Tarocchi d'Arte series.
Manara, Milo
Lo Scarabeo, Italy
LS
2004 (c)
78 cards
Multi-lingual
Other
978-0738710136
Tarocchi dell'Immaginario
Imagination, Fantasy, Art
22 cards (majors-only) with a title card and an informational leaflet in Italian. Packaged in a 2 piece cardboard sleeve-style box.
The back of the box is signed by the artist, Ferenc Pinter.
The cards are oversized, measuring 14.7 cm tall x 8.8 cm wide. The corners are square.
The card stock is amazing -- smooth and uncoated, and with a very faint stripe pattern on the front that gives the art a sense of life and movement.
The backs are a blue and white pattern that isn't quite reversible (though you won't notice unless you are looking closely).
Card titles are in Italian. The Fool is numbered 0. Justice is 8 and Strength is 11.
Part of Lo Scarabeo's Tarocchi d'Arte series.
Later also made available as a full 78 card deck.
Pintér, Ferenc, 1931-2008
Lo Scarabeo, Italy
LS
1991
22 cards
Italian
Other
Visconti Gold Tarot
Visconti Tarots
I Tarocchi Visconti
Tarots des Visconti
Visconti, Historical
78 cards plus a title card and 2 advertising cards in a standard cardboard tuck box. Part of the Tarocchi d'Arte series.
Cards measure 12 cm tall x 6.6 cm wide.
This was sold as part of a box set with a companion book. Hence, the tuck box containing the cards is not marked with an ISBN or a date, and there is no LWB (because the companion book removes the need for one).
This is the 2002 release of this deck. The earlier release (1998) had different versions of the Tower and Devil cards. The original art was painted by Bonifacio Bembo, but some cards are missing from the original deck -- hence, Atanassov painted his own versions of them when restoring the art for this edition.
A stunningly gorgeous feature of this deck is the gold foil stamping, which makes the cards absolutely gleam in the light. The scans don't even begin to capture the beauty of the gold foil.
Aside from the gold foil stamping, the cards have a matte finish and the card stock is nicely flexible. (Though I wouldn't want to shuffle these cards, as I don't want to damage the foil.)
The backs are reversible.
The minors are beautifully illustrated, though not at all scenic.
Suits (in English) are Pentacles, Swords, Chalices, and Wands. (The Pentacles suit is named differently in the other languages that appear on the cards.) Courts (in English) are Knave, Knight, Queen, and King.
Justice is 8 and Strength is 11.
There's an interesting typographical error on the companion book cover: Renaissance is spelled "Reaissance" (as you can see in the picture).
The book is written by Giordano Berti and Tiberio Gonard.
Atanassov, Atanas A. (restoration of original historical images)
Bembo, Bonafacio (original paintings)
<a href="http://www.tarotpassages.com/visconti-mh.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.tarotpassages.com/visconti-mh.htm</a><br /><br />Review of the earlier printing, showing the earlier version of Atanassov's Tower card: <a href="http://pasteboardmasquerade.com/Reviews/visconti.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://pasteboardmasquerade.com/Reviews/visconti.html</a>
Lo Scarabeo, Italy
2002
78 cards
Multi-lingual
Visconti
0-7387-0293-5 (deck and book set)
88-8395-285-8 (book)
Tarot of the Master
I Naibi di Giovanni Vacchetta
Tarocchi del Maestro
Meister-Tarot
Tarot del Maestro
Tarot du Maître
Vachetta
Historical
78 cards plus a title card and an advertising card. Packaged with an instructional foldout, in a standard cardboard tuck box.
Cards are 12 cm tall x 6.5 cm wide.
Card stock is durable yet flexible, with a smooth matte finish.
Backs are non-reversible.
Part of the Tarocchi d'Arte series by Lo Scarabeo.
Strengh (La Forza) is 11 and Justice (La Guistisia) is 8.
Suits are Denari (coins), Spade (swords), Coppe (cups), and Bastoni (batons or wands).
Courts are Fante, Caval, Regina, and Re.
The card titles are part of the original border art, and are in Italian. In addition to the titles, keywords in five languages appear along the left-hand border of each card. These were added specifically for this edition, and were not part of the original I Naibi di Giovanni Vacchetta tarot.
Giovanni Vacchetta created the original art for this deck in 1893 in Turin. The colors -- complete with age spots -- for this 2002 edition were done by Michela Gaudenzi.
The majors and court cards are fully scenic. The minor arcana are beautifully and richly illustrated, and far more detailed than the minors of a TdM deck -- however, they do not feature people, and are not scenic.
The majors show some definite TdM influences, but this really isn't a TdM -- it's unique and, in my opinion, truly amazing and worth seeking out by any collector.
Vacchetta, Giovanni (original art)
Gaudenzi, Michela (coloring)
Lo Scarabeo
2002
78 cards
Italian
Multi-lingual
Historical
0-7387-0236-6