Da Vinci Enigma

Caitlin Matthews brings the Matthews household's method, deep sources, systematic instrument, to a surprising subject: not myth but a mind. The Da Vinci Enigma Tarot of 2005 builds its deck from Leonardo's own notebooks and preoccupations, the flight studies, the anatomies, the water and war machines, treating the Renaissance's most documented intelligence as itself a symbolic system worth mapping. Where Lo Scarabeo's Da Vinci deck in this catalog paints homage, this one constructs an engine. The result reads as biography-as-arcana: draws land on facets of a working genius, curiosity, observation, unfinishedness, the gap between blueprint and build, which turn out to be uncannily good divinatory categories. It completes this catalog's Matthews shelf across both authors, John's legends and Caitlin's Leonardo. It suits readers who love the notebooks more than the paintings, students of creative process, and anyone who wants a deck about thinking. Those who want Leonardo's beauty without his homework know which of the two Da Vinci decks is theirs.