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This deck was conceived on the premise that had Hieronymus Bosch been commissioned to create a Tarot deck by a European noble family in the 1500s, the deck would have looked very similar to this one. Bosch actually lived and worked during the same time period as the development of early Italian Tarot decks, and many of his paintings use the same archetypes as those decks as well as the Tarot decks that came later. For example, | This deck was conceived on the premise that had Hieronymus Bosch been commissioned to create a [[Tarot]] deck by a European noble family in the 1500s, the deck would have looked very similar to this one. Bosch actually lived and worked during the same time period as the development of [[Visconti-Sforza Tarot|early Italian Tarot decks]], and many of his paintings use the same archetypes as those decks as well as the Tarot decks that came later. For example, The Conjurer and The Wayfayrer cards share artwork that is nearly identical to the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]]'s [[Magician]] and [[The Fool|Fool]] cards. | ||
The author spent several months isolating and manipulating the necessary images in such a way that their scenes could be singled out for inclusion on specific cards. Often, many images were pulled from a single work of art. | The author spent several months isolating and manipulating the necessary images in such a way that their scenes could be singled out for inclusion on specific cards. Often, many images were pulled from a single work of art. | ||