The Art of Tarot
For Digital Libraries, Z652, 2022
Contents: About the Collection | Credits | Tech
About the Collection
While many collectors of Tarot cards do so because of their purported supernatural abilities, as far as modern science can tell they’re little more than ordinary playing cards. This does not, however, detract from the beauty of Tarot decks; unlike most standard 52-card decks, each Tarot card contains a detailed illustration, often playing off of age-old symbolism and parable. This collection showcases just a few of those cards, pulling six Major Arcana from decks varying in both art style and age.
Learn more about the decks in this collection
You can search the collection by card title, deck title, artist, date, subject, suit, or description. You can also browse the full collection and sort it alphabetically, by date, by suit, or by deck; or click the buttons below each card to view other cards with the same tag. The purpose of this collection is to show how different artists, separated by time, gender, and culture, each interprets the centuries-old format of Tarot.
Credits
Header images and other assets accessed via Adobe Stock under an education license.
Technical Credits - CollectionBuilder
This digital collection is built with CollectionBuilder, an open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites that is developed by faculty librarians at the University of Idaho Library following the Lib-Static methodology.
The site started from the CollectionBuilder-GH template which utilizes the static website generator Jekyll and GitHub Pages to build and host digital collections and exhibits.