The Visconti-Sforza Tarot CardsThe Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards" contains a commentary by Michael Dummett and full size, color reproductions of Tarot cards from the Pierpont-Morgan Library in New York City, and the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, Italy. In his introduction, Dummett refers to the cards as a masterpiece of mid-fifteenth-century Italian art in the International Gothic style. The Visconti-Sforza Tarot deck, named for the two great ducal families for whom they were made, is a fine example of the 78 card Tarot lineage (consisting of 56 suit cards and 22 picture cards). The suits of this deck are Swords, Batons, Cups and Coins. The four court cards are King, Queen, Knight and Jack. |
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| Title | The Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards |
| Author | Michael Dummett |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | G. Braziller, 1986 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 6, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0807611417, 9780807611418 |
| Length | 141 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / Individual Artists / General |
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