Visconti-Sforza Tarot
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Title
Visconti-Sforza Tarot
Subject
Visconti, Historical
Description
78 cards plus two advertising cards, with an unusually informative LWB, in a cardboard tuck box with a cut out window in the front to let part of the Magician card show through.
The cards are oversized, measuring 17.5 cm tall x 9 cm wide.
This is an un-restored printing of the Pierpont Morgan-Bergamo Visconti-Sforza tarot cards, originally painted by Bonifacio Bembo.
Stuart Kaplan authored the LWB.
My copy is from the 1984 printing, not the original 1975 printing.
The LWB notes that the Devil, Tower, Star, and Moon cards were missing from the original deck and have been recreated; however, there's no artist attribution for the recreated cards.
As is the case with any version of the Visconti, the minors are illustrated, but not scenic.
Justice is 8 and Strength is 11.
The backs are plain maroon with no pattern, and thus completely reversible.
The cards are oversized, measuring 17.5 cm tall x 9 cm wide.
This is an un-restored printing of the Pierpont Morgan-Bergamo Visconti-Sforza tarot cards, originally painted by Bonifacio Bembo.
Stuart Kaplan authored the LWB.
My copy is from the 1984 printing, not the original 1975 printing.
The LWB notes that the Devil, Tower, Star, and Moon cards were missing from the original deck and have been recreated; however, there's no artist attribution for the recreated cards.
As is the case with any version of the Visconti, the minors are illustrated, but not scenic.
Justice is 8 and Strength is 11.
The backs are plain maroon with no pattern, and thus completely reversible.
Creator
Bembo, Bonifacio
Publisher
U.S. Games, United States
USG
Date
1984
Format
78 cards
Language
English and Italian
Type
Visconti
Identifier
0-913866-06-7
Citation
Bembo, Bonifacio, “Visconti-Sforza Tarot,” The Osborne Tarot Collection, accessed May 9, 2024, http://tarot.zerosummer.org/items/show/111.
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