Details of the Mantegna Tarot
Solandia's Summary: This wonderful deck is a tarot ancestor, with only fifty cards. The Mantegna Tarot artwork, originally created in 1460, has been recoloured and highlighted with silver. What appears as mottled dark grey in the digital scans is actually bright silver foil.
Creator(s):
A. Atanassov
Type: Tarot Deck Number of Cards: 50
Card Size: 2.63 x 4.75 inches = 6.67cm x 12.06cm
Publisher: Published by Lo Scarabeo
2000
Deck Tradition: Unique
Strength is 37 Justice is 38
Deck Characteristics:
Metallic Decks
Deck Themes:
Historical Reproductions
Other Decks by Creator(s):
Bosch Tarots,
Da Vinci Tarot,
Golden Botticelli Tarot,
Golden Tarot of Klimt,
Golden Tarot of the Tsar,
Tarot of Visconti Grand Trumps,
Visconti Tarot
by A. Atanassov.
Card Back: Unknown
Excerpt of the
Mantegna Tarot review by Solandia: The Mantegna deck is an ancestor to the 78 card tarot deck with major and minor arcana as we know it today. The fifty original engravings created by an Italian artist have been dated to around 1460.
Many artists have recopied the original Mantegna artwork. Atanas Atanassov is the latest, redesigning and painting the cards in soft pastel colours and flesh tones. What would normally be the sky o... read more.
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