Visconti–Sforza Tarot
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The Visconti–Sforza Tarot is used collectively to refer to incomplete sets of approximately 15 decks from the middle of the 15th century, now located in various museums, libraries, and private collect
Cards from the Pierpont Morgan Bergamo deck
Detail from the four of denari
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Tarot
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Tarot is a set of playing cards used in Tarot card games and fortune-telling or divination. From at least the mid-15th century, the tarot was used to play trick-taking card games such as Tarocchini. F
Visconti–Sforza Tarot
…world. No complete deck has survived; rather, some collections have a few face cards, while some consist of a single card. They are the oldest surviving tarot cards and date back to a period when tarot was still called Trionfi ("triumphs" i.e. trump) cards, and used for everyday playing. They were commissioned…
Trumps of the Tarot de Marseilles, a standard 18th-century playing card pack, later also used for divination
A 3-card tarot spread used for divination. The deck is the Smith-Waite Centennial Tarot Deck (a faithful reproduction of the original Rider-Waite-Smith deck from 1909).
The juggler from the Pierpont Morgan Bergamo Visconti-Sforza pack
The Cary sheet, a partial uncut sheet of Milanese tarocchi, c. 1500