Da Vinci Enigma
Renaissance tarot celebrating Leonardo da Vinci's genius and mystery.
by Caitlin Matthews · 2005
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The record
The enigma of Leonardo Da Vinci - Renaissance man, engineer, artist, natural historian, philosopher, and thinker who created blueprints for manned flight, helicopters, the diving bell, and hydraulics (to name a few) and painted one of the most famous art images, the Mona Lisa - is the inspiration for the Da Vinci Enigma Tarot. Caitlin Matthews, previously known for her Celtic-inspired Tarot works such as the Arthurian Tarot and the Celtic Wisdom Tarot, has branched out to research and create a profound and original Tarot set. The Da Vinci Enigma Tarot artwork is not just inspired by or in the style of Leonardo - these cards have illustrations from Leonardos own notebooks, drawings and writings, all carefully chosen to fit the Tarot archetypes. "These tarot cards follow his curious and penetrating vision through his own words and drawings to look more deeply at how the macrocosm, the Greater World of the Eternal Cosmos, and the microcosm, the created world in which we live, meet and mingle." The major arcana images have been chosen from the sketches and studies for Leonardos own paintings. The numbered minor cards are from his notebooks, "where he sketched his inventions, dissecti
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