About this item
- Also known as Visconti-Sforza Pierpont Morgan Tarot
Specifications
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Name
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Visconti-Sforza Tarot
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Alternate Names
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Visconti-Sforza Pierpont Morgan Tarot
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Creators
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Unknown
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Publisher
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US Games
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Deck Type
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Tarot Deck
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Cards
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78
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Reviews
of the cards (Tower and Devil) were
added in the modern reproduction. However, it is quite
possible that both missing cards were never there in the
first place, due to the religious and political
controversy that surrounds these gambling cards. By
taking historically comparing these late 15th
century cards to modern cards, one is able to appreciate
the beauty and changes in detail that has been
embedded in many of our modern tarot cards. Such as the
Fool, that later tarot decks added a sun; the Hermit,
has been replaced from holding an hourglass to a
lantern; Coins became the Neo-Pagan pentacles; batons served
as magical wands. Temperance was originally a female
pouring water from one vase to another, yet became a nude
female pouring waters to both sea and land in modern decks,
and so on.
The cards have no titles, no numerical
alphabetical allegories (since Comte De Mellet first
established the infamous 22 Hebrew letters to the tarot, not
Eliphas Levi), which makes their outlook more
au
thentic, yet may be more complicated for a tarot
beginner. Their background is a simple reddish brown/maroon
color, and they must be shuffled from the sides rather
than the top for convenience. In my opinion, these are
the "true" and original tarot that many of us may be
looking for. They set the standards and values to modern
tarot decks and their designs.
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