Photograph by Chiara Goia He is one reason tarot lovers, like me, come to Milan. In the mid-15th century, the Visconti and Sforza families, rulers of Milan for more than two centuries ...

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

These cards from the deck known as the Visconti Tarot were likely made for Filippo Maria Visconti, duke of Milan, sometime in the 15th century. The cards, created in the workshop of painter ...

The Visconti Brambilla Tarot, by Bonifacio Bembo & Francesco Sforza, Italy, 1493. The legacy of tarot still permeates Northern Italy especially, and artists like Osvaldo Menegazzi, based in Milan ...

Beinecke Rare Image & Manuscript Library (Yale University) A tarot card from the famed Cary-Yale Visconti deck ... the mid-15th century for the duke of Milan. Today the deck resides within ...

The Visconti-Sforza tarot decks would have been played in Milan, Ferrara, Florence, and Bologna. In the mid-17th century, tarot expanded outside Italy to France and Switzerland. In France ...

and separates inspired by characters of the Visconti-Sforza tarot deck — one of the oldest surviving tarot decks in recorded history, dating back to 15th-century Milan, Italy. For spring/summer ...

Courtesy of Dior By the 1940s, tarot was already a centuries-old ... in the mid-15th century by Filippo Maria Visconti, the Duke of Milan, and his successor, Francesco Sforza, and feature detailed ...

MILAN, MI -- Get a tarot reading, try some tea or shop a range of metaphysical supplies at a new business in Milan. The Paper Moon Shoppe recently opened at 31 E. Main St. and sells an assortment ...