From its origins in gambling, to a canvas for artists and political expression, tarot went through one last transformation in ...

Ann, the main character in the moody Read With Jenna pick “The Cloisters,” uses the cards in a medieval tarot deck to gain insight about an, um, complicated situation she’s in. Tarot ...

Like the Visconti deck, other surviving examples of tarot and playing cards from the medieval and early Renaissance periods are all gorgeously illustrated, individually executed works of art made ...

About a year ago, I picked up my first deck of tarot cards. If you don’t know, tarot cards are medieval “playing” cards that have become more repurposed toward seeing ever-so-slightly into ...

Medieval Europe generally encountered goods ... while the church’s displays of pomp and wealth provoked disdain. The designs of tarot cards emulate that turmoil. The Visconti-Sforza deck ...

Ann, the main character in the moody Read With Jenna pick “The Cloisters,” uses the cards in a medieval tarot deck to gain insight about an, um, complicated situation she’s in. Tarot ...