Tarocco delle Vetrate
Italian deck by versatile artist Luigi Scapini.
by Luigi Scapini · 1997
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The record
I've become a bit of a Scapini buff of late, collecting a few of his decks and having my eye on two more. What I like about him is that while he is highly accomplished, his style in all of the decks that I've seen is completely different to each other, he has no stylistic "fingerprint" as - say - van Gogh had, or Titian. Each of the decks that I've seen is executed in a particular style which is consistent throughout the deck, and each of them is appealing in its own way. Before I get started, I'd like to get a major criticism out of the way: the LWB is hopeless. In fact, all the Scapini LWBs that I've seen are - he doesn't seem able to talk about his image without a) aggrandisement and b) total nonsense. Of course, he is an Italian - this fault may lie with the translator. If he is bilingual and translates his own LWBs, he desperately needs to invest money in paying someone with better English to do it for him. Thus, this deck would never do for a beginner: you couldn't teach yourself or learn about the feel of a given card from the enclosed literature. That out of the way, this is an appealing deck. It is not widely available although it is in print: I spent over two years search
The cards
