Tarot Mantegna: A System of Images Linked to Astrology and Renaissance Astronomy

Since its genesis in the fifteenth century, the Tarot has been linked to astrology and Renaissance astronomy. Marziano da Tortona, the intellectual author of the oldest documented Game of Triumphs (tarot), was an astrologer and personal counsellor to the Duke of Milan Filipo Maria Visconti. In his Tractatus de deificatione sexdecim heroum, Marziano seems to…...

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Anuar Zacarias

Anuar Zacarias

Anuar Zacarias studied Philosophy at UNAM. He is a visual artist and an avid reader of Egyptology. He studied tarot from a therapeutic perspective with Cristobal Jodorowsky. He has researched the history of tarot for several years, as well as ancient astrology. In 2021, he carried out the first restoration of the 50 engravings of the Tarot Mantegna, E Series from the 15th century, and wrote a book that serves the design and edition of this deck. The restored deck with the book can be purchased by sending a message to the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thotyseshat/ The book can also be purchased individually in a large format through Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B2J842QV

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