The Sola Busca tarot is the earliest completely extant example of a 78-card

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deck. It is also the earliest tarot deck in which all the plain suit cards are illustrated and it is also the earliest tarot deck in which the trump card illustrations deviate from the classic tarot iconography. Unlike the earlier

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s, the cards of the Sola Busca are numbered. The Trump cards have

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while the pips of the plain suits have Hindu Arabic numerals.The deck was created by an unknown artist and engraved onto metal in the late 15th century. A single complete hand-painted deck is known to exist, along with 35 uncolored cards held by various museums. The deck is notable not only for its age, but also for the quality of its artwork, which is characterized by expressive figures engraved with precise contours and shading. Various theories have been suggested about who created the deck, but its authorship remains uncertain.

Composition

The Sola-Busca deck comprises 78 cards including 21

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(''trionfi'') plus the Fool (''Matte'') and 56

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s. There had been many previous decks structured in this way. The names and illustrations on the trump cards in the Sola Busca are somewhat idiosyncratic for its time.The departure from classic trump iconography in the Sola Busca is a trait shared by later French suited tarot decks such as the

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, the uncle of Julius Caesar. Trump cards loosely follow the rise and fall of the Roman Empire but also include members of the

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such as

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. All the characters can be easily linked to their equivalents in the earlier and later, more standard, decks.

Painted deck

The complete painted deck is currently housed at the Brera Museum in

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. It can trace its provenance to the noble Busca-Serbelloni family. In the early 19th century the deck was owned by Marchioness Busca (born Duchess Serbelloni) of Milan. In 1907, the Busca-Serbelloni family donated black-and-white photographs of all 78 cards to the

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, where they were likely seen by

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and

Pamela Colman Smith Pamela Colman Smith (16 February 1878 – 18 September 1951), nicknamed "Pixie", was a British artist, illustrator, writer, publisher, and occultist. She is best-known for illustrating the Rider–Waite tarot deck (also called the Rider–Wait ...

, inspiring the subsequent Waite-Smith tarot deck. From 1948, the deck was owned by the Sola-Busca family, from which it received its name. In 2009, the deck was purchased for by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and delivered to the Brera Museum.

Unpainted cards

Thirty-five unpainted cards are also known. The

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museum in

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owns 23, including all of the trumps except the first and last, Mato and Nabuchodenasor. The 20 trump cards originally belonged to

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, while the other three came from the

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. The

owns four unpainted cards, which it purchased from William and George Smith in 1845. Four unpainted cards are also housed in Hamburg and Paris.

Impact

The similarities between the artwork of the

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of the Waite-Smith deck and Sola-Busca's plain suits has led some scholars to suggest that artist

drew inspiration from the earlier work. Smith created the art for her deck two years after the acquisition of photographs of the Sola-Busca deck by the British Museum, and likely saw the cards on display there. Notable similarities include the

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card and the

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card in the Rider deck, which is very similar to the

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card in the Sola-Busca deck.

Research

In 1938, Arthur Mayger Hind described the Sola Busca Tarot in his ''Early Italian Engravings'' and supposed that the deck was engraved around 1490 and then hand-painted in 1491, as a result of reading some of the inscriptions on the cards. He also supposed that the deck was created for a Venetian client by Mattia Serrati da Cosandola, a miniaturist operating in Ferrara (the center of Tarot card production at the time). In fact, many inscriptions on the cards refer without any doubt to the Republic of Venice. In 1987, in the catalogue of a great Tarot exhibition realized at the Estense Castle of Ferrara, Italian historian

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wrote a summary of all the research made up to that point by various scholars. In 1995 the Italian scholar Sofia Di Vincenzo, in her book titled ''Antichi Tarocchi illuminati. L’alchimia nei Tarocchi Sola-Busca'' (

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, 1995 and Stamford, 1998), argued that many images of the Sola Busca deck are related to themes of European

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as practised during the

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. In 1998, the german publisher Wolfgang Mayer printed, for the first time, a faithful version of the 78 cards in a limited edition of 700 numbered copies. In 2012 the Pinacoteca di Brera organized the exhibition ''Il Segreto dei Segreti - I Tarocchi Sola Busca e la cultura ermetico-alchemica''. In the catalog, the possible author of the engravings, Nicola di Maestro Antonio, the possible inspirer, the hermeticist Ludovico Lazzarelli, the year and place of execution of the color version, Venice in 1491, are suggested. Furthermore, it has been established in an irrefutable way that the Sola Busca Tarot is linked to the hermetic-alchemical tradition. The key figure is the King of Swords, titled Alecxandro M. (

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), who according to a legend, reported in the medieval book entitled ''Secretum secretorum'', was initiated into alchemy by his master, the philosopher

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. In addition to Alexander the Great there are other characters linked to the hermetic-alchemical tradition. The Knight of Swords, Amone, refers to

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Ammon Ammon (Ammonite: 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''ʻAmān''; he, עַמּוֹן ''ʻAmmōn''; ar, عمّون, ʻAmmūn) was an ancient Semitic-speaking nation occupying the east of the Jordan River, between the torrent valleys of Arnon and Jabbok, in p ...

, the mythical putative father of Alexander who welcomed him in the Siwah Oasis. The Queen of Swords, Olympias, Alexander's mother, was known as a sorceress. The Knight of Cups, Natanabo, ( Nectanebo), was an Egyptian priest and magician. Prof. Gnaccolini, inspired by the study of Sofia Di Vincenzo, cites many other explicit alchemical allegories.

Trump suit

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Plain suits

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Ten of Cups Ten of Cups is a Minor Arcana tarot card. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory pur ...

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Swords

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Page of Swords Page of Swords (or Jack or Knave of Swords) is a card used in Latin suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the "Minor Arcana" Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card ...

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Knight of Swords Knight of Swords is a card used in Latin suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the "Minor Arcana". Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. In English-speak ...

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Queen of Swords The Queen of Swords is a card in the Suit of Swords, part of the Minor Arcana set of the Tarot. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. In English-speaking countries, Tarot cards are utilized primarily for div ...

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King of Swords King of Swords is a card used in Latin suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the "Minor Arcana". Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play Tarot card games. In English-speak ...

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