
Tarot Significado e Historia / Significance and History
by Ortega Ventureira, PedroBuy New
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Summary
Here's a fascinating look at the Tarot's cultural legacy over the centuries. The journey begins in Renaissance Italy, when the antecedents of these decks are explored as well as the first examples of tarot cards that we have. The Visconti tarots (the oldest), the Tarot of Mantegna and the Tarot Sola Busca stand out. After these milestones of the origins, these decks make the leap to other spaces in Europe. It is in France where the most important deck of all will be created: the Tarot de Marseille, which will serve as the basis for the configuration of the main contemporary tarots. With a masterful knowledge of the subject, the author explains the subsequent development of decks from the eighteenth century, both in the French, British and Hispanic spheres. It is in the nineteenth century when esoteric and occult tarots become popular, to move on – in the twentieth – to symbolic, Jungian or feminist interpretations. In short, it is a very complete work that brings together the history and meaning of the tarot with a language accessible to the non-specialized public, full of carefully chosen illustrations.
Author Biography
Pedro Ortega Ventureira is an engineer, Master in digital publishing, PhD in Art History and expert in technologies applied to cultural heritage. He has written about tarot for such prestigious magazines as National Geographic History. He has also been a speaker at the five editions of the International Congress of Deck and Tarot. He is the author of the book Mantegna's Tarot and the Arcane Wisdom of the Renaissance.
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