Tarot cards, Visconti Sforza Pierpont Morgan Tarocchi Deck
The pack contains two bonus cards with portraits of Bianca Maria Visconti and Francesco Sforza. The 78-card deck consists of full-color facsimile reproductions of 74 surviving original Visconti-Sforza tarocchi cards from the 15th century(Milan, Italy). Four cards have been carefully recreated to replace those missing from the original deck; the Devil, the Tower, the Three Swords and the Knight of Coins. The cards, which have no names or numbering, depict everyday life in medieval Milan through allegorical images. The original cards are placed in three different locations. Thirty-five of the original cards are in the archives of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. Twenty-six of the surviving cards are in the Accademia Carrara in Italy, and thirteen cards are located in the Casa Colleoni in Bergamo, Italy.
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