Lo Scarabeo Art Nouveau Tarot Cards - tarot cards

Price: US $15.50

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• Pack information: 78 Cards and booklet
  Card dimensions: 70 x 120 mm
  Authors:
• Antonella Castelli
  
  Art Nouveau, Liberty, Modern Style, Jugendstil are some of the different names used around
• the world to define the same style, which grew in Europe and in the U.S.A. at the turn of the century. Liberty (from the
• name of the owner of a furniture firm in London) is the term used commonly in Italy. It is also called floral style, because
• of its salient characteristics: its curved line of vegetable inspiration, stylised and allusively symbolic, used in asymmetrical
• and bi-dimensional decorations.
  
  This style created in Europe an original and unitary artistic atmosphere; it
• realized a synthesis of arts outside their traditional academic hierarchies; it supported a point of contact of art with
• modern civilization and with industrial production; though with ingenuous faith it stirred a large social problem to let art
• become a common legacy.
  
  Pointing to a total integration of art in everyday life, Art Nouveau involved every
• field, from architecture to furnishing, from graphics to the design of the smallest utensil. It is from this point of view that
• Antonella Castelli created this wonderful tarot deck, in which she was able to join the mystery and the symbols
• of this ancient divination tool to the elegant and light graphics of Liberty. These cards become, therefore, not only a
• fascinating mean for cartomancy but also a real work of art to be treasured and collected