Tarot Emblemata

TAROT EMBLEMATA is an 88-card deck of 78 Tarot cards & 10 Oracles featuring illustrious Renaissance Emblems from 16th century France and their enigmatic mottos aligned with the Major and Minor Arcana cards of traditional Tarot archetypes. TAROT EMBLEMATA represents the evolution of Emblem designs through history and their enchanting, transcendent, and universal power taking new form. These 88 cards have been reproduced by curating Claude Paradin originals and digitally "cleaning-up" the artwork, optimizing them for their contrast, line quality, sharpness, and saturation in Photoshop. From there the Emblems were formatted to fit the cards, and “inverted” to be printed on a dark-Sienna background with gold metallic ink, (not gold foil.)  The Tarot format is an excellent way to access the wisdom and revelations of Emblemata through the process of divination: their visual language is a fusion of the arts of illustration and writing in a dynamic interplay between ancient and iconic ima