Origen
Where it comes from
Tarot as we know it was born in northern Italy in the 15th century, in the courts of Milan and Ferrara. The Marseille deck was standardized in France in the 17th. Yet its iconography is much older: it draws on Egyptian, Hermetic, alchemical, Kabbalistic and medieval Christian symbolism. Each arcanum is a page of a silent book written in images.
