Sola Busca Tarot Size: 143 mm x 77 mm Another of the key Tarot decks following on from my blog posts on the Tarot de Marseilles and the Visconti-Sforza Tarot. The Sola Busca tarot was created in 1491. We know the e…

Been a while writing this one tarot117.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/s... Found links between the early days of Tarot and alchemist George Riley. Along the way I also get in mentions of Labyrinth, Chappel Roan, Hippias of Elis and Helen of Troy. There's a lot going on with this deck. #Tarot #SolaBusca

🪷 It's #Antinous! When #PamelaColmanSmith (16 Feb 1878 - 18 Sept 1951) was creating her #Tarot cards, she was inspired by a British Museum exhibition of #SolaBusca Tarocchi cards to illustrate ALL 78 cards. The museum's #Antinous art also inspired her! antinousstars.blogspot.com/2026/02/happ... 🪷

🪷 It's #Antinous! When #PamelaColmanSmith (16 Feb. 1878 - 18 Sept. 1951) was creating her #Tarot cards, she was inspired by a British Museum exhibition of #SolaBusca Tarocchi cards to illustrate ALL 78 cards. The museum's #Antinous art also inspired her! antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/09/pame... 🪷

In Sola Busca, 2 puttis appear to hold a club coming up out of (or are they lowering it into) the cavity of the armor? Are they turning it? Sculpting it to form the head? I doubt we'll ever know the original meanings in this deck, but

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🪷 It's #Antinous! When #PamelaColmanSmith (16 Feb 1878 - 18 Sept 1951) was creating her #Tarot cards, she was inspired by a British Museum exhibition of #SolaBusca Tarocchi cards to illustrate ALL 78 cards. The museum's #Antinous art also inspired her! antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/02/happ... 🪷