The Gilded Tarot is a visually stunning Rider-Waite design tarot, the very first from the gifted Ciro Marchetti. The 78 cards feature genuine people, and have a mix of medieval, dream, cosmic and steampunk art, all showed in rich, brilliant colour. Buy and Enjoy This Set at: Buy and Enjoy This Set at: Gilded Tarot Review by Solandia Welcome to the Gilded Tarot world of fantasy, magic and magic.
There are couple of decks with artwork that Ive discovered quite this attractive. Ciros art is a sophisticated blend of digital paintings drawn by hand on a graphics tablet, and some pasted components (primarily faces). The vibrancy and choice of the colours is fantastic: the backgrounds of blue skies, dawns, night skies, golden, stars and comets in numerous cards are so luminous they nearly appear to glow, as do the strong, saturated blues, greens, purples and reds of the medieval-style outfits.
Instead of simply copying, Ciro has actually utilized its imagery as a jumping off point for his imagination and inspiration. The Gilded Tarot isn't one to utilize for its relative historic significance or occult and mystical depth, however the card images are special and gorgeous, feeling more like a lovely fantasy or the inhabiting of a hyper-real dream-world than the Rider-Waite ever did.
In most major cards the art has been disrobed to the primary human figure, losing a few of the familiar meaning and removing them somewhat from their environment. (The High Priestess, the Hanging Male, Temperance and the Fool who looks surprisingly however coincidentally like George W. Bush - actually float, weightlessly, in the air.) The minor suits are Cups, Wands, Swords and Pentacles.
Instead of wonderful or living wands, the Gilded Tarot has an unique baton that appears more like a water fountain pen with a metal ring attached to one end. The deck has a few other mechanistic touches, especially noticeable in the Wheel, the Sun, Star and Moon, which is slightly at chances with the non-technological fantasy landscapes.
Pictures rather than drawings of faces with the proper expression and angle have actually been utilized rather. Key Reference like this effect; my eye is drawn initially to the human face in a card and I discover it off-putting if a face is drawn clumsily or out of percentage (not an uncommon occurrence in many decks).
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