Below is presented a non-exhaustive list of some essential internet websites dedicated to the Tarot,
grouped as follows :
• Pages about the Tarot and its history •
• High resolution images of historical Tarot decks •
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• Pages about the history of Tarot •
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• High resolution images of historical Tarot decks •
https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/
The Beinecke Rare book and Manuscript Library of the Yale University. Searching its digital collections for “Tarot” will provide among others some links to high resolution images of the “Visconti di Modrone” deck (1442), the “Este Tarot” deck (1473) and also the so called “Cary Sheet” (±1500).
https://www.nga.gov/open-access-images.html
The National Gallery of Art in Washington keeping some uncut Tarot cards sheets from the Rosenwald Collection.
https://gallica.bnf.fr
The National Library of France. Searching with the word “tarot” provides access to high resolution images of many historical Tarot decks.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection
The British Museum has a huge collection of playing cards, displayed with the search keywords “Tarot”, “Tarocchi”, “Tarocchino”, “Minchiate”, “playing cards”…
http://www.printsanddrawings.hu/
Website of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest (Hungary). Searching on tarot will give you access to fragments of uncut sheets from different decks. Parts of it are an almost complete set of trump cards, identical to the dick sheets kept in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The order of the trumps (part of the trumps are numbered) is typical for Trionfi decks from the Dutchy of Ferrara.
http://cards.old.no/
Many images of ancient playing cards, including Tarot decks..
https://commons.wikimedia.org
The non-profit, multilingual, free-content media files from the Wikimedia family, to which anyone can contribute, where many historical playing cards and Tarot cards can be found.
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