Tarot has transformed from a noble card game in Renaissance Italy into a powerful tool for self-discovery and mysticism. The earliest decks, like the hand-painted Visconti-Sforza, were once symbols of ...

Even today, Etteilla’s tarot remains second only to the standard Rider-Waite-Smith deck, which has been printed an estimated hundred million times since the first edition was published in 1909.

Spanning tarot’s origins in the 15th century to its use in the present day, Tarot: Origins & Afterlives is an upcoming exhibition curated by London’s Warburg Institute surveying the role of tarot in ...

The Warburg Institute in London, one of the world’s leading centres for the study of art and culture, will launch a dynamic programme of public exhibitions and events in a series of new spaces, ...

Etteilla’s premise echoed the writings of Court de Gébelin, who allegedly recognized Egyptian symbols in tarot-card illustrations.

Theoretischer und praktischer Unterricht über das Buch Thot was published in Leipzig in 1793 by the lawyer, bookseller, and writer Adam Friedrich Gotthelf Baumgärtner (1759-1843). The book is a ...

Le Grand Etteilla, ou l'Art de tirer les cartes was first published in 1838 and remained in print for almost a century. This is a later edition of the book from circa 1900. It was printed by Lejay ...

In France in the 1780s, the occultist Jean-Baptiste Alliette (also known as Etteilla) created a new deck intended for fortune-telling and popularized tarot as a form of divination rather than a game.