Tarot de Marcelino
Cute and beautiful Philippine tarot with diverse artistic styles per edition.
creator unknown · 2009
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The record
The Philippines-based artist, Lynyrd Narciso has a reputation for cute and beautiful decks, having previously created the Vanessa Tarot, the Tarot of the Lepidopteran People, Les Adorables Tarot, and his early Sailor Tarot. His artistic style is usually diverse, with each deck having a noticeably different look as well as theme, and his latest is no exception. El Tarot de Marcelino is a wonderfully quirky little deck which combines an amusing back story with cards based on the European traditional rather than the Rider-Waite. The story behind the cards begins thus: “This remarkable series of images was discovered amongst other personal possessions of one Alestra Crawling, Marchioness of Whaite (one of them a very telling diary filled with the scandals and intrigues of the members of the Gilded Dawn Club). They were presumably a copy of an older set of woodcuts done by a master following the Marseilles tradition.” I won’t spoil the rest of the booklet for you, other than to quote Lynyrd’s apt description of the style of the cards: “Since during those times, engravers did not generally sign their work, experts have found it convenient to refer to the creators of these images as the N
The cards
