Oriental Tarot 1845
Posted: 15 Jan 2019, 18:13
The Oriental Tarot 1845 is an extraordinary lithographic artwork by Claudio Foudraz, a Piedmontese printer remained unknown to historians until recently.
The 78 magnificent cards are kept in the form of uncut sheets at the Academy of Sciences of Turin, which has authorized the reprint edited by Giordano Berti and published by Rinascimento – Italian Style Art.
It is clear that the printer was inspired by "Chinese" fashion, which for many years was widespread in every part of Europe among the aristocracy and the upper middle classes.
To say better, the iconography of the figures is typically "Marseillaise", but all the characters created by Foudraz, so pretty and seductive, with their sumptuous embroidered silk dresses and their sinuous movements, reflect the conventional representations of China, during the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century, that graced the homes of the aristocracy and the upper middle classes in every part of Europe.
The Oriental Tarot has been reprinted by Rinascimento on a special "vellum paper" in a limited edition of 700 numbered copies.
In the booklet that accompanies the deck, Berti describes the fashion of “chinoiserie” that inspired the Oriental Tarot and reports the results of an unpublished research by french historian Philippe Noyes regarding the life and the activity of this lithographer.
The booklet is available in english or italian.
As usual for Rinascimento, deck and booklet are available in two different boxes.
The Deluxe version is a refined book-shaped box designed by art designer Letizia Rivetti and handcrafted by expert Italian artisans.
The outside of the Deluxe box is gray marbled paper with silver inserts. The interior is lined in velvet.
The Art Box is more simple: just covered with gray marbled paper with silver inserts.
Other news in the Rinascimento's website https://rinascimentoitalianartenglish.w ... arot-1845/.
The 78 magnificent cards are kept in the form of uncut sheets at the Academy of Sciences of Turin, which has authorized the reprint edited by Giordano Berti and published by Rinascimento – Italian Style Art.
It is clear that the printer was inspired by "Chinese" fashion, which for many years was widespread in every part of Europe among the aristocracy and the upper middle classes.
To say better, the iconography of the figures is typically "Marseillaise", but all the characters created by Foudraz, so pretty and seductive, with their sumptuous embroidered silk dresses and their sinuous movements, reflect the conventional representations of China, during the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century, that graced the homes of the aristocracy and the upper middle classes in every part of Europe.
The Oriental Tarot has been reprinted by Rinascimento on a special "vellum paper" in a limited edition of 700 numbered copies.
In the booklet that accompanies the deck, Berti describes the fashion of “chinoiserie” that inspired the Oriental Tarot and reports the results of an unpublished research by french historian Philippe Noyes regarding the life and the activity of this lithographer.
The booklet is available in english or italian.
As usual for Rinascimento, deck and booklet are available in two different boxes.
The Deluxe version is a refined book-shaped box designed by art designer Letizia Rivetti and handcrafted by expert Italian artisans.
The outside of the Deluxe box is gray marbled paper with silver inserts. The interior is lined in velvet.
The Art Box is more simple: just covered with gray marbled paper with silver inserts.
Other news in the Rinascimento's website https://rinascimentoitalianartenglish.w ... arot-1845/.