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Dusserre (2008)
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This is THE best selling Tarot of Marseilles. A reprint deck of the original celebrated Paul Marteau's 1930 edition, explained by him in his 1949 book featuring the same name.
Published by Grimaud and Duserre with minor colour and paper differences, this was once considered by most experts to be the
However in recent years several ancient tarot decks and printing woodblocks by several makers from Marseilles from the 16th and 17th centuries have been thoroughly inspected and massively reproduced and this concept is no longer unanimously held.
Marteau seems to have based his edition on late (1880) tarot editions copied from Lequart/Conver (1748/1760) decks using "untraditional" simple colors probably to allow for simpler mechanical color printing. Also several pictures were slightly changed or simplified probably by Marteau himself.
Following this knowledge, lately several "veritable", "universal", "millennium", "Camoin-Jodorowski", etc. tarots have been published trying to reconstitute an ideal-original-pure long lost Tarot of Marseilles which presumably was the model for every (slightly different) version that followed ending in the "distorted" Marteau's edition. The original colors and many lost (or imaginary) details in the cards have been recovered and new interpretations were added as a result.
Controversy apart, this widespread "purist" discussion is helping to shed more light on the original symbolism and allegory of the classic tarot deeply rooted on Renaissance art, culture and mysticism.
Published by Grimaud and Duserre with minor colour and paper differences, this was once considered by most experts to be the
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original Marseille's iconographic pattern: THE actual standard of Marseilles' Tarot tradition.However in recent years several ancient tarot decks and printing woodblocks by several makers from Marseilles from the 16th and 17th centuries have been thoroughly inspected and massively reproduced and this concept is no longer unanimously held.
Marteau seems to have based his edition on late (1880) tarot editions copied from Lequart/Conver (1748/1760) decks using "untraditional" simple colors probably to allow for simpler mechanical color printing. Also several pictures were slightly changed or simplified probably by Marteau himself.
Following this knowledge, lately several "veritable", "universal", "millennium", "Camoin-Jodorowski", etc. tarots have been published trying to reconstitute an ideal-original-pure long lost Tarot of Marseilles which presumably was the model for every (slightly different) version that followed ending in the "distorted" Marteau's edition. The original colors and many lost (or imaginary) details in the cards have been recovered and new interpretations were added as a result.
Controversy apart, this widespread "purist" discussion is helping to shed more light on the original symbolism and allegory of the classic tarot deeply rooted on Renaissance art, culture and mysticism.
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3505770500011