This excellent essay on the Rider-Waite Tarot makes available to the reader all the symbolic, mythological and psychological depth of the Tarot giving an answer
to the enormous complexity of its paradoxical images.
With almost two hundred images, this book is an exciting study on the Rider-Waite Tarot. In the first part, the author studies the traditional Tarots: Visconti-Sforza, Mantegna (15th century) and Marseille (18th century). Through the iconographic analysis the Tarot is investigated in its multiple aspects, relying on the cultural, written and visual elements of the time, to reveal the unconscious attitudes of its time and how they are manifested in it. Decisive are the relations of the Mantegna Tarot with the Hermetic Philosophy and the frescoes of the Palazzo Schifanoia in Ferrara; of the Visconti-Sforza Tarot with the Art of Memory; and the Tarot of Marseilles...read more