Sola Busca Tarot 1491

The Tarot masterpiece of Italian Renaissance.
This precious Tarot deck previously belonging to the Marchessa Busca, born duchess of the Serbolloni family and married into the Busca family, was acquired by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Resources and Activities in 2009 and assigned to the Brera gallery (Milan). There is a great difference between the Triumphs of this deck and the canonical figures, in that apart from the Mato (Fool) which was drawn according to a generally common iconography of the time - the remaining Triumphs represent famous personalities from ancient Rome and biblical times, (along with others that are not easily identifiable).

The earliest known deck to have illustrations on all of the 78 cards, as apposed to only the Trump - Major Arcana cards. 

Mini: 5 x 8 cm.