Mantegna Tarot

Though not a tarot deck in the conventional sense, the Mantegna Tarot is one of the most visually stunning card sets ever produced. Its 50 silver-gilded cards are divided into five groups of ten, depicting social stations, the nine Muses and Apollo, the Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Cardinal Virtues, and the Heavenly Spheres. The imagery reflects medieval cosmology in exquisite detail, and twenty-five teaching cards are included to help readers orient themselves within a worldview that may feel unfamiliar today. As light catches the silver foil, the cards take on a luminous quality that feels genuinely otherworldly.