Golden Tarot
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The Golden Tarot is a modern Tarot
deck based on the Rider-Waite-Smith deck created by the Australian artist
and author
Kat Black. The deck makes use from the European masters' paintings, these cards pay tribute to artwork of the Middle ages
and early Renaissance
to emulate the feel of such early decks as the Visconti-Sforza.
The deck was published by US Games Systems in 2004 with a 90 page companion book (ISBN 1-57281-434-9). The deck was created by digitally collaging European artwork from 1300 - 1500AD, largely in the International Gothic
style. In addition to traditional Rider-Waite symbolism, Black incorporated many other symbols to make the deck easy to read intuitively.
It was voted one of the Top Ten Tarot Decks of all time in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 on the popular Aeclectic Tarot Forumhttp://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/topten.shtml.
Golden Tarot has 78 cards and follows the ordering system of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck.
Tarot
The tarot |trionfi]] and later as tarocchi, tarock, and others) is a pack of cards , used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games such as Italian tarocchini and French tarot...
deck based on the Rider-Waite-Smith deck created by the Australian artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
Kat Black. The deck makes use from the European masters' paintings, these cards pay tribute to artwork of the Middle ages
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
and early Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
to emulate the feel of such early decks as the Visconti-Sforza.
The deck was published by US Games Systems in 2004 with a 90 page companion book (ISBN 1-57281-434-9). The deck was created by digitally collaging European artwork from 1300 - 1500AD, largely in the International Gothic
International Gothic
International Gothic is a phase of Gothic art which developed in Burgundy, Bohemia, France and northern Italy in the late 14th century and early 15th century...
style. In addition to traditional Rider-Waite symbolism, Black incorporated many other symbols to make the deck easy to read intuitively.
It was voted one of the Top Ten Tarot Decks of all time in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 on the popular Aeclectic Tarot Forumhttp://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/topten.shtml.
Golden Tarot has 78 cards and follows the ordering system of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck.
External links
- Golden Tarot Official site by artist/author Kat Black
- US Games Systems Publishers of Golden Tarot
- Aeclectic Tarot Forum Tarot Discussion Forum
- http://www.tarotpedia.com/wiki/index.php/Golden_Tarot Entry on Tarotpedia Directory