Cary-Yale Visconti 15th Century Tarocchi Deck
Cary-Yale Visconti 15th Century Tarocchi Deck
Cary-Yale Visconti 15th Century Tarocchi Deck
Cary-Yale Visconti 15th Century Tarocchi Deck
Cary-Yale Visconti 15th Century Tarocchi Deck
Cary-Yale Visconti 15th Century Tarocchi Deck
Cary-Yale Visconti 15th Century Tarocchi Deck
Cary-Yale Visconti 15th Century Tarocchi Deck
Cary-Yale Visconti 15th Century Tarocchi Deck
Cary-Yale Visconti 15th Century Tarocchi Deck
Cary-Yale Visconti 15th Century Tarocchi Deck
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Cary-Yale Visconti 15th Century Tarocchi Deck

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This complete 86-card Cary-Yale Visconti Tarocchi deck includes facsimile reproductions of 67 extant 15th-century cards, plus 19 cards recreated to replace missing cards from the original pack.

The 24 court cards are of particular interest because they include both male and female knights and pages. The 67 extant cards, believed to have been painted by Bonifacio Bembo, are housed in the Cary Collection of Playing Cards, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, at Yale University.

This deluxe edition includes a 68-page guidebook with color illustrations, expanded meanings by Stuart R. Kaplan, and an in-depth history of tarot cards by Thierry Depaulis.
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Cards

86

Size

3.65 x 7.75 inches

Guidebook

Included

Pages

68

Bonifacio Bembo

Bonifacio Bembo (1420 - 1480) was a 15th-century Renaissance artist born in Brescia, Italy. The son of painter Giovanni Bembo, he worked primarily in Cremona and was commissioned by the powerful Sforza family to paint portraits of Francesco Sforza and Bianca Maria Visconti.

He is often credited with creating the Visconti-Sforza tarot deck, one of the oldest surviving tarot sets, now housed in the Cary Collection at Yale University. Though many works were once attributed to him, art historians now recognize only the Sforza portraits as his.

Stuart R. Kaplan

In 1968, Stuart Kaplan discovered the Swiss 1JJ Tarot at the Nuremberg Toy Fair and began selling it in New York. With no guide available, he wrote Tarot Cards for Fun and Fortune Telling. With these products, he founded U.S. Games Systems, Inc., the first company to publish tarot decks in the U.S. Stuart brought recognition to Pamela Colman Smith through years of research and his book Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story.

He also authored the four-volume Encyclopedia of Tarot and viewed tarot as a creative and meditative tool. A passionate collector, his final project was The Game of Authors Compendium. Stuart Kaplan passed away on February 9, 2021, at 88. He is remembered for his kindness, humor, and generosity.

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