Mantegna Tarot

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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