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The Golden Tarot of Klimt by Atanas Alexander Atanssov

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Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d’art. Klimt’s primary subject was the female body; his works are marked by a frank eroticism.
Klimt’s ‘Golden Phase’ was marked by positive critical reaction and financial success. Many of his paintings from this period include gold leaf. Klimt had previously used gold in his Pallas Athene (1898) and Judith I (1901), although the works most popularly associated with this period are the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) and The Kiss (1907–08). Read more The Golden Tarot of Klimt by Atanas Alexander Atanssov ›

The Dante Tarot by Giordano Berti and Andrea Serio

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Inspired and directed by the life and works of the medieval Italian poet Dante, who is perhaps best known for his Divine Comedy. The Dante Tarot is a stunning and unique tarot deck that has tranformed the traditional tarot symbols.
The Dante Tarot was inspired by the life and creations of Dante Alighieri, who was an Italian poet born in 1265. He is best known for his Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy), a poem that describes a journey into the three parts of the Christian afterlife: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso – Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. Read more The Dante Tarot by Giordano Berti and Andrea Serio ›

The Bruegel Tarot by Guido Zibordi Marchesi

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Inspired by the rich and detailed artistic style of Flemish painter, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, these cards show the daily life of the medieval peasant in lively fashion. It’s a rather more earthy Tarot than the Giotto Tarot by the same author. Read more The Bruegel Tarot by Guido Zibordi Marchesi ›

Da Vinci inspired Tarot deck

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An art tarot in homage to the great Renaissance painter and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci. The images in the Da Vinci Tarot are mostly inspired by Leonardo’s art, but do feature some of his well-known pieces. First published as the Leonardo aa Vinci Tarot a stand-alone deck, it’s now available as the Da Vinci Tarot kit with a book by Mark McElroy. Read more Da Vinci inspired Tarot deck ›

Sacred Art Tarot deck by Andre St. Dryden

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The Sacred Art Tarot takes religious and classical artwork and iconography, and cut-and-pastes extra tarot symbolism to link it with the traditional Rider-Waite imagery. Each of the 78 illustrations is surrounded with a gilt frame border. Kind of nice for real painting, but pretty kitschy for some Tarot cards. Read more Sacred Art Tarot deck by Andre St. Dryden ›

Tarot Of Ceremonial Magick

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The Tarot of Ceremonial Magick is a new deck created by DuQuette and published by U. S. Games. In this groundbreaking book, he explains the symbology of the cards. On each card is shown the Zodiacal, Enochian, Ceremonial, Goetic, Tattvic, and Elemental components, along with the card’s place in each of those systems, and its relationships to other cards. For students of Crowley’s works, this new deck and book makes his conceptual connections more accessible. Read more Tarot Of Ceremonial Magick ›

The Renaissance Tarot deck of G. Trevisan

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In the Tarot of the Renaissance, artist Giorgio Trevisan captures the spirit of this lively period in history. This deck is not a reproduction of an historical deck, but Trevisan’s rendering of imagined symbolic scenes from that time period. There are nobles and peasants, philosophers and warriors. Cards such as Temperance are reminiscent of paintings by Vermeer. Some card themes are similar to those in other tarot decks, but many are unique. Read more The Renaissance Tarot deck of G. Trevisan ›

The Medieval Scapini Tarot deck

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The cards of the Medieval Scapini Tarot, by Luigi Scapini, are in the European Tarot style. It’s a wonderful deck with a very authentic Middle Ages feel and look to the card artwork.
After recreating the missing cards from the 15th century Tarocchi decks to form the U.S. Games’ reproduction of the Visconti-Sforza Tarot, Luigi Scapini was apparently inspired to create his own version of the Tarot in a similar genre. Read more The Medieval Scapini Tarot deck ›

The Alchemical Tarot deck

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Robert M Place is the designer of The Alchemical Tarot, The Alchemical Tarot Renewed, The Tarot of the Sevenfold Mystery, The Facsimile Italian Renaissance Woodcut Tarocchi, The Tarot of the Saints, The Buddha Tarot, The Vampire Tarot, and The Angels Tarot. He is the author of the books that accompany most of these decks. He has also authored The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, which Booklist has said, “may be the best book ever written on that deck of cards decorated with mysterious images called the tarot.” He is the author of Astrology and Divination, Magic and Alchemy, and Shamanism, written for the Mysteries, Legends, and Unexplained Phenomena series, and the author of Alchemy and the Tarot. He is the curator of The Fools’ Journey and the author of the catalog for this exhibition of Tarot art that originated at the LA Craft and Folk Art Museum in 2010. He was the guest of honor at the opening of the Tarot Museum in Riola, Italy in 2007. His Facsimile Tarocchi is included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Read more The Alchemical Tarot deck ›