Examples of tarot cards as an art form include Pamela Colman Smith’s iconic Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck and the Thoth Tarot deck created by Lady Frieda Harris, which is on view in the ...

Graphic designer and artist Bill Wolf, whose interest in tarot illustration dates to his art-school days ... claimed that tarot cards originated with the legendary Book of Thoth, which supposedly ...

Amid the glitter of its art, Renaissance Italy was also scourged by wars, while the church’s displays of pomp and wealth provoked disdain. The designs of tarot cards emulate that turmoil.

But at the same time, the cards entered the mainstream. German art historian Aby Warburg ... Smith’s iconic Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck and the Thoth Tarot deck created by Lady Frieda ...