Details of the Solleone Tarot
Solandia's Summary: Colourful, super-real and in-your-face, the Italian-published Solleone Tarot cards have a medieval style and occasionally use bloody and violent imagery.
Creator(s):
Elisabetta Cassari
Type: Tarot Deck Number of Cards: 78 Major Arcana: 22 Minor Arcana: 56
Card Size: 3.25 x 5.87 inches = 8.26cm x 14.92cm
Publisher: Published by Solleone
1983
Deck Tradition: Italian
Minor Arcana Style: Unique Scenes With Suit Symbols
Suits: Cups, Swords, Wands, Pentacles
Court Cards: Page, Knight, Queen, King
The Fool is 0 Strength is 11 Justice is 8
Deck Characteristics:
Decks of the 80s
Deck Themes:
Dark & Gothic
Card Back: Unknown
Languages:
English
Excerpt of the
Solleone Tarot review by Annabel: The Solleone was my first Tarot deck. It was just out when I bought it more than 30 years ago, its contemporary art recreating medieval characters and activities.
Clients sometimes blench at all the blood and violence. These are a metaphor for the intensity of feeling that the Venetian artist, Elisabetta Cassani, sustained during the two years she spent painting these images. It is humans with... read more.
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