Who can tell me what tarot cards are? I hope it's not a big copy and paste!

Tarot cards first appeared in Italy in the15th century and were very popular in the western world. They can be used not only for playing cards, but also for divination and psychotherapy. These aspects are not involved here, but tarot cards are introduced as an art.

The "Tarot Museum" has a collection of Tarot patterns collected by European and American museums before19th century.

Tarot cards are not my main collection direction, so this part of the content is updated slowly.

Tarot cards are different from other playing cards. Although other playing cards in the15th century were drawn by hand, the images were relatively rough. When Tarot cards began to appear, the images were very beautiful, usually painted by court painters, and they were nobles in poker.

Since the18th century, tarot cards have been widely used for prophecy and divination, so at this time, tarot cards began to add related patterns and dissolve into mysterious colors. Some people also changed the order of patterns and the design of traditional patterns. For example, according to the Bible, some patterns such as sky, fish, birds and Eve were added, while some traditional patterns were subtracted. But traditional arrangements are still popular.

In the middle and late 20th century, the design of tarot cards was diversified, and various art forms emerged one after another, such as surrealism and abstraction, which were all reflected in tarot cards, and their patterns were quite different from the traditional ones. Different from ordinary tarot cards, tarot cards rarely use ready-made pictures such as scenery and animals as patterns, and each new tarot card comes from the artist's careful creation. Therefore, tarot cards in the 20th century have become very important works of art in the western world, and are also very important collections for collectors.