Tarot of the 78 Doors

Pietro Alligo conceived Tarot of the 78 Doors for Lo Scarabeo, then handed the concept to Antonella Platano to illustrate, the same artist behind the Gay Tarot and, the archive notes, working in that same visual style again here. Doors and keys carry the symbolism in an urban and contemporary frame, and an independent structure means the images answer to this deck's own logic instead of a card by card inherited meaning. A door reads as a workable central image for a card system: something to open or not, a threshold between one state and the next, which gives an independent deck a unifying metaphor without borrowing the Waite Smith vocabulary wholesale. Readers who already know Platano's Gay Tarot have a useful comparison on hand, since the archive notes a consistent style across both. It suits readers who want a coherent contemporary symbol set built on a single clear metaphor, and collectors following Lo Scarabeo's independent-system experiments alongside its more traditional lines.