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Focusing on the 15th century period when Lorenzo de Medici and his family ruled Florence, the cards include portraits of key family members and some of their favorite works by artists of that period.

There are two versions of this deck:

the standard, and the expanded.

In the expanded edition (shown in the sample scans accompanying this listing), the borders are more ornate, and the image cropping on a few of the cards is slightly altered.

These 22 cards are beautifully printed to fine art quality with vivid colour and detail.

Created by Londa Marks Tarot Deck – 22 Cards – Alchemist Publishing 2009

More About These Cards

Name: Medici Tarot

Creators: Londa Marks

Publisher: Alchemist Publishing 2009

Deck Type: Tarot Deck

Cards: 22 Major

Arcana: 22 Card

Language: English

Card Back: Reversible

Companion Material: 28-page companion booklet, and a three card spread leaflet.

He is one reason tarot lovers, like me, come to Milan. In the mid-15th century, the Visconti and Sforza families, rulers of Milan for more than two centuries, commissioned a local artist named Bonifacio Bembo to illustrate a custom tarot deck for them. Painted in tempera, then embellished with gold and silver leaf, the Visconti-Sforza deck attests not only to Bembo’s talent but also to the families’ keen taste for pocket-size art. Travelers can view 26 of the surviving cards at the Accademia Carrara, a fine-art academy and gallery in Bergamo, an hour northeast of Milan. (Read more about Caterina Sforza, a Renaissance warrior woman who defied powerful popes to defend her lands.)

Splendid Sforza Castle, with its brick ramparts, is where cards dating from about 1500 were discovered in the early 20th century, at the bottom of a well. Closer to the center of Milan, the Pinacoteca di Brera art gallery houses, along with masterpieces by Caravaggio and Raphael, the Sola Busca deck, completed in 1491. Considered the inspiration for the Rider-Waite-Smith deck—a gold standard for tarot users today—the Sola Busca was the first known to put detailed illustrations on all 78 cards. These original cards, which recall an era of knights, knaves, and family crests, fit right in with the frescoes and panels in 15th- and 16th-century churches.

to be continue https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/milan-italy-explore-tarot-centuries-old-history

The format of  Taroscopes is changing. Instead of readings for every month, I’m going to alternate between articles about the tarot in general and the usual twelve “taroscope” readings. This month we’ll look into two different styles of tarot, then the usual format will return in August.

Tarot is known by most people in the west and in many cultures around the world, but fewer people know how and why the tarot came to be as we know it today. The origin of the first tarot deck is a mystery, but most scholars think the art form originated in Italy, then spread to France when the French conquered Milan and Piedmont in 1499. There are several extant decks from that time, the most complete of which are the Visconti-Sforza decks commissioned by the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti, and his successor, Francesco Sforza. The oldest type of mass-produced decks are the Tarot de Marseilles, named for the French city where most printing houses were based.

However, most people today don’t think of these decks when they think of the tarot, they think of the kind of decks that became popular in the 1970s during the New Age movement. These include the popular Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot, Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot, and the hundreds of other decks created in the same style.

To differentiate between these two styles of tarot design, writer Yoav Ben-Dov refers to them in terms of two “schools,” the French school and the English school. The French is the older of the two; it includes the many variations of the Tarot de Marseilles, while the English school is the modern style that came from the ideas of several English tarot-creators. We’ll start by taking a look at the English school, then compare it to the French.

please to be continue https://goodmorningaomori.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/schools-of-tarot/

Londa R. Marks, visionary and creator of 13 tarot kits, numerous World Of Tarot empowerment products, metaphysics of music and cryptography has carefully chosen and blended these Renaissance images showcasing intricate details to provide a reader with many options to assimilate an enriched tarot reading experience.

User Experience Level: Intermediate

Included With This Purchase

• Complimentary 10 minute private texting chat with author and designer Londa R. Marks. Find out how this Medici tarot deck can empower you! Details after purchase.
• 1 Instruction card included. 

Card & Box Specifications

• Cards measured in inches at: 2 3/4″ wide by 4 3/4″ long. 
• Each card is made in high gloss with vibrant colors. 
• Each card has excellent shuffling characteristics and built in blue core technology to reduce transparency. 
• Enhanced memory than standard cards giving better spring when shuffled.
• Comfortable to handle and durable for daily use.
• Durable box to keep your cards safe for many years measures in inches at: 2 7/8″ wide by 4 7/8″ long by 7/16″ thick.  
• Slender & portable box design compares in size to iPhone 6 easily fits in your pocket or purse.