Future Solleone Tarot cards OOP Start Price USD 100.00 Current Price USD 100.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, December 01, 2008 End Time Monday, December 08, 2008 Location mid west See more about 'Future Solleone Tarot cards OOP' Description Designer(s), Artist(s): Elisabetta Cassari Country of Publication: ItalyNumber of Cards: 78Publication Year: 1987Publication Status: Limited edition of 1,500 copiesComposition / Packaging: 78 cards in slipcover box Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 233, 235-236 Future Solleone TarotElisabetta Cassari, 1987 This is a deck created by the Italian artist Elisabetta Cassari, published by Edizione del Solleone in 1987. It was limited to a printing of 1500, and each deck is numbered on the outside of the slipcased box. The style is reminiscent of her first deck, The Solleone Tarot, both decks showing her beautiful linework and crosshatch shading. The Future Solleone Tarot is a 78-card deck with a few variations from the traditional trumps. Cassari is narrating a linear story, which begins with a creation myth, moves through the development of a fictional society, and ends with the repercussions of their fascination with technology. The first card is Chaos (below), showing a primordial and shapeless world on which life has not yet taken form. This genesis continues as cards 2-Light, 3-Aurora, 4-Reptiles and Fish (below), 5-The Human Creatures, 6-the Tyrant, and 7-the People. The rest of the trumps follow more closely to tradition yet are illustrated with some very creative variations. The entire deck is a work of science fiction. In the folded booklet that comes with it, Cassari explains that her cards tell the story of a distant planet in a future galaxy. Reptiles and Fishes, shown above, depicts the stage in the planet’s history when its evolving creatures take to the sky. Not shown here are some interesting human characters from the series of trumps: the birth of human life on the planet (5-The Human Creatures), marriage between a couple from two different alien races (18-The Marriage), Justice as an android whose sophisticated machinery computes the fate of those brought before her, and The Devil represented by a futuristic ‘evil genius’ (15-The Evil Genius). The fully-illustrated minors are made up of the four elements, with a keyword at the top of each card. The one major change here is that she has switched the associations of Air and Water: her booklet associates her Air to the suit of Cups and her Water to Spades. The end result is that her keywords are vaguely similar to traditional card meanings, but those usually given to Cups are here given to the suit of Air, and vice-versa. The printing reproduces crisp lines and beautiful colors on a shiny, unlaminated surface. The cardstock is medium weight. Also included is a folded booklet which is written in Italian. new! Place a Bid!