Tarot Review: Steinberger Anima Antiqua
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- One of the new Anima Antiqua editions from Lo Scarabeo - French playing card based. Not very functional as a tarot deck - more for collectors. Stay until the end when I read a poem!
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Thanks for your reviews - always enjoy them. I too truly am passionate [these days LOL] about historic decks and was curious about this STEINBERGER deck. If you do not already follow this fellow - I think you will find the channel LEARN TAROT CARD GAMES - quite interesting. He has lots of videos about the intended game use of and details about historic or historic styled decks, including one very similar to this. A quite knowledgeable channel content creator that complements my interests.
I am now aware, I will check him out - thank you...and thank you for watching!
Thanks for the deck review! Yes! I completely agree with your conclusions! I could find no info on this deck on the internet. Given the year 1820 was only 5 years after Napoleon was defeated, finally at Waterloo, in 1815. I bought this deck because it was released in 1820, at a time when Napoleon was still living, in exile, on St. Helena, and John Polidori's 'The Vampyre' story was published in 1819 (following the famous 'Gothic Retreat' of Byron, Shelleys, Polidori in 1816) and it is an example of the art of that time. Germany would not exist for 50 more years, Protestant, so they would probably not embrace the very Catholic Italian suited tarots with the Pope and Popess (I think 'The Popess' is clearly a reference to the virgin Mary of the Annunciation art from the 1400's by various artists), the French Tarot de Marseille era ended, really, around 1760's (everyone uses the Conver 1760 resurrected as 'CBD' deck for TdM) and the deck is the Industrie und Glück pattern, which originated in Vienna in 1815, and the rules dramatically streamlined the game of Tarock. I am not sure when the basic 'Tapp Tarock' became popular, that was the main game played with the Industrie und Glück pattern decks, from what I have gleaned. It would be ridiculous to think that no one ever did fortune telling with this deck, I would guess fortune-tellers would use whatever was available, including this beautiful deck. Literature from this time does not have many examples of tarot for fortune telling, most fortune telling was done with marked-up standard playing cards, or piquet cards (more common) but, of course, palmistry was the main divination method of the time. 1820 was also the same year that Lenormand published her opus Mémoires historiques et secrets de l'impératrice Joséphine, Marie-Rose Tascher-de-la-Pagerie, première épouse de Napoléon Bonaparte!!
It's an odd deck for sure. If you haven't seen the movie Gothic,...you probably have. Anthony Burgess also wrote a book about that retreat. I think Lo Scarabeo has been really good at publishing some overlooked decks.
Bah! Bought this thinking it was a really pretty first deck 😣 a little disappointed honestly, but that’s how beginner mistakes are haha
It's an odd deck for an initial one. I have a video about beginner decks that might help you out.