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Tarot ( / ˈtæroʊ /, first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarocks) is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Tarocchini. From their Italian roots, tarot-playing cards spread to most of Europe, evolving into a family of games that includes German ...
- Tarot Card Reading
Tarot card reading is a form of cartomancy whereby...
- Etteilla
Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla) at his work table, from...
- Tarot De Marseille
Cards from 1751. The Tarot of Marseilles is a standard...
- Tarot (Disambiguation)
The tarot refers to a pack of playing cards used from the...
- Major Arcana
Every tarot deck is different and carries a different...
- The Hierophant
The Hierophant (V) in the Rider–Waite tarot deck. The...
- Tarot Card Games
A complete Tarot deck such as one for French Tarot contains...
- Trionfi (Cards)
Each deck consisted of 70 cards — the modern Tarot deck...
- Cartomancy
The Fortune Teller (1895) by Art Nouveau painter Mikhail...
- The Magician
The Magician (I), from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. The...
- Tarot Card Reading
The Rider–Waite Tarot is a widely popular deck for tarot card reading, [1] [2] first published by the Rider Company in 1909, based on the instructions of academic and mystic A. E. Waite and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, both members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Also known as the Waite–Smith, [3] Rider–Waite–Smith, [4 ...
Tarot card reading is a form of cartomancy whereby practitioners use tarot cards to purportedly gain insight into the past, present or future. They formulate a question, then draw cards to interpret them for this end. A traditional tarot deck consists of 78 cards, which can be split into two groups, the Major Arcana and Minor Arcana.
Tarot, any of a set of cards used in tarot games and in fortune-telling. Tarot decks were invented in Italy in the 1430s by adding to the existing four-suited pack a fifth suit of 21 specially illustrated cards called trionfi (“triumphs”) and an odd card called il matto (“the fool”).
- David Parlett
Tarot is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Tarocchini. From their Italian roots, tarot-playing cards spread to most of Europe, evolving into a family of games that includes German Grosstarok and modern games such as French Tarot and Austrian Königrufen. In the late 18th century French occultists made ...
Tarot. Le Bateleur, "The Mountebank," the first trump in the Tarot of Marseille. The Tarot (often Tarot cards) are a set of seventy-eight cards, comprising twenty-two Тrump cards, and four suits of fourteen cards each with four Face cards. In the English speaking world, Tarot cards are mostly used for divination.
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Apr 8, 2016 · Three luxury tarot decks have survived from the mid-15th century. One of the decks is thought to have been made for Filippo Maria Visconti, the last duke of Milan of that name, prior to his death in 1447. Known as The Visconti Tarot, the deck's 69 surviving cards are preserved in Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.