The art and symbolism of Tarot
 Directory of tarot decks.
A list of a few tarot decks from my coliection with some descriptive information. I have included two images from each deck - the Fool and the Tower. The Fool because for the artist creating the deck it often seems to define the style of their artwork. I chose the Tower because it is quite a fixed image that is not easy to extend or symbolically reshape and thus to my mind tests the creative imagination of the artist. It will take quite some time to complete this listing as there are over 1200 decks to describe !
The directory is now divided into three pages as it is getting too long.
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Adrian Tarot

Artist: Adrian B. Koehli  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 135mm.    Width: 67mm.   Standard  
Date: 1997.  Publisher: AG Mueller.  Country: Switzerland
Ägyptisches Tarot Karten

Artist: Bernt A. Mertz  Designer:   
22 cards Major arcana only  
Height: 99mm.    Width: 62mm.   Standard  
Date: .  Publisher: mvg.  Country: Switzerland
Black pen drawings with areas in gold
A.F. Tarot Deck

Artist: Uncredited  Designer:   
42 cards Major arcana only  nonstandard - Minor arcana only has aces and the four court cards of each suit. Back of each card has a different astrological symbol.
Height: 89mm.    Width: 58mm.   Miniature  
Date: 1970.  Publisher: Art Fair Inc..  Country: USA
Line drawings based on Tarot of Marseilles. Interiors of drawings are in white and printed against a yellow background.
African Tarot Cards

Artist: Marina Romito  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are emblematic.  
Height: 77mm.    Width: 58mm.   Miniature  
Date: 1995.  Publisher: U.S. Games Systems.  Country: USA
Afro-Brazilian Tarot

Artist: Giuseppe Palumbo  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are emblematic.  
Height: 120mm.    Width: 66mm.   Standard  
Date: 2006.  Publisher: Lo Scarabeo.  Editor: Pietro Alligo.  Country: Italy
Pen drawings in soft brown ink, coloured with watercolour or water based acrylic.
The artwork is cartoon, almost manga, style. Palumbo has worked on various comic books including the well known 'Martin Mystere' series.
Akron Tarot

Artist: S. O. Huettengrund   Designer: Akron - Charles F. Frey   
80 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are emblematic.  
Height: 119mm.    Width: 70mm.   Standard  
Date: 2004.  Publisher: AGMueller-Urania Verlag .  Country: Switzerland
Tarocchi dell'Alba Dorata (Arte)

Artist: Giacinta Gaudenzi  Designer:   
22 cards Major arcana only  
Height: 144mm.    Width: 77mm.   Standard  
Date: 1990.  Publisher: Lo Scarabeo - Tarocchi d'Arte.  Editor: Pietro Alligo.  Country: Italy
Watercolours.
Titles have been renamed but the symbolism of the major arcana are easily recognisable.
Alchemical Tarot

Artist: Robert M. Place  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are emblematic.  
Height: 120mm.    Width: 80mm.   Standard  
Date: 1995.  Publisher: Thorsons.  Country: UK
Line drawings coloured, imitating woodcuts.
Alchemical Tarot

Artist: Edward J. O'Donnelly  Designer: Rafal T. Prinke  
22 cards Major arcana only  
Height: mm.    Width: mm.   Standard  
Date: 1988.  Publisher: Edition Ouroboros.  Editor: Frank K. Jensen.  Country: Denmark
Alcohol tarot

Artist: Uncredited  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  Limited edition of 1000
Height: 120mm.    Width: 70mm.   
Date: 2004.  Publisher: Carta Mundi.  Country: UK
Photographs some with collage
Amado 777 Tarot

Artist: Amado Crowley  Designer:   
111 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are emblematic.  nonstandard - Alpha pack is standard 22 + 56 cards. Beta pack has five new major arcana and two new suits (28 cards) for the minor arcana.
Height: 120mm.    Width: 70mm.   Standard  
Date: 2001.  Publisher: Diamond Books.  Country: Belgium
Acrylics with airbrushing or similar effect.
Amano Yoshitaka

Artist: Amano Yoshitaka  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 115mm.    Width: 64mm.   Standard  
Date: 2002.  Publisher: .  Country: Japan
Ananda Tarot

Artist: Ananda Kurt Pilz   Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 120mm.    Width: 70mm.   Standard  
Date: 2001.  Publisher: Urania.  Country: Switzerland
Computer graphics collage.
Ancestral Path Tarot Deck

Artist: Julie Cuccia-Watts  Designer: Tracey Hoover  
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are emblematic.  
Height: 105mm.    Width: 80mm.   Standard  
Date: 1995.  Publisher: U.S. Games.  Country: USA
Acrylics.
Ancient Egyptian Tarot

Artist: Clive Barrett  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are emblematic.  
Height: 119mm.    Width: 80mm.   Standard  
Date: 1994.  Publisher: Aquarian Press.  Country: UK
Oil paintings.
Ancient Italian Tarot

Artist:   Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 120mm.    Width: 66mm.   Standard  
Date: 2000.  Publisher: Lo Scarabeo.  Country: Italy
Engravings tinted with watercolour.
Reproduction of Cartiera Italiana in Serravalle Sesia, 1880.
Ancient Mysteries Tarot Deck

Artist: Roger Calverley  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 120mm.    Width: 80mm.   Standard  
Date: 2004.  Publisher: Lotus Press.  Country: USA
Manipulated photographic images.
Angel Tarot

Artist:   Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 113mm.    Width: 63mm.   Standard  
Date: 1980.  Publisher: U.S. Games Systems.  Country: USA
Angels Tarot

Artist: Robert Michael Place  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 127mm.    Width: 70mm.   Standard  
Date: 1995.  Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco.  Country: USA
Line drawings coloured with watercolour.
Ansata Tarot

Artist: Paul Struck  Designer:   
22 cards Major arcana only  
Height: 129mm.    Width: 90mm.   Standard  
Date: 1981.  Publisher: AG Mueller.  Country: Switzerland
Oil paintings.
Also known as the Mertz -Struck Tarot. The images by Paul Struck were originally published by Ansata Verlag with the book 'Astrologie und Tarot' by B.A. Metz, 1981.
Antico Tarocco Italiano

Artist: Stefano Scagni  Designer: Diego Meldi  
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 125mm.    Width: 70mm.   Standard  
Date: .  Publisher: .  Country: Italy
Aperol Tarot - Tarocchi Mazzo Egizio Barbieri

Artist: F. Ili Barbieri  Designer:   
46 cards Major arcana only  
Height: 108mm.    Width: 70mm.   Standard  
Date: 1973.  Publisher: Aperol.  Country: Italy
Line drawings coloured with solid blocks of colour.
Aquarian Tarot

Artist: David Palladini  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  
Height: 118mm.    Width: 75mm.   Standard  
Date: 1970.  Publisher: Morgan Press.  Country: USA
Arcana for the New Dark Age

Artist: William Kirchner  Designer:   
22 cards Major arcana only  
Height: 163mm.    Width: 121mm.   Large  
Date: 1994.  Publisher: Pomegranate books.  Country: USA
Watercolour.
Published as a book of postcards. Similar in style to the Postmodern Tarot.
Arcani Occultati di Leonardo

Artist: Ernest Solari  Designer:   
22 cards Major arcana only  
Height: 139mm.    Width: 75mm.   Standard  
Date: .  Publisher: Solari.  Country: Italy
Mixed. Some are coloured pencil drawings. Others are watercolours. While others use photographs and collage.
I 22 Arcani Fiabeschi

Artist: M . Elena Pecchio  Designer:   
22 cards Major arcana only  Limited edition of 2500
Height: 115mm.    Width: 70mm.   Standard  
Date: 1986.  Publisher: Osvaldo Meneghello.  Editor: Osvaldo Meneghello.  Country: Italy
Pen drawings coloured probably with watercolour.
Archeon Tarot

Artist: Timothy Lantz  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are emblematic.  
Height: 120mm.    Width: 68mm.   Standard  
Date: 2005.  Publisher: U.S. Games Systems.  Country: USA
Computer manipulated collage using painted textures and colouring.
Tarot des Archétypes

Artist: Bernard Chaumeil  Designer:   
22 cards Major arcana only  
Height: 153mm.    Width: 77mm.   Large  
Date: .  Publisher: Institut de Bio-Psycho-Synergie.  Country:
Crayon with pencil underdrawing.
Cards are renamed with two polarised archetypal terms such as 'joy - sadness', 'light-shadow', 'love-hate', 'patience-impatience' etc., but have some imagery recognisably related to the tarot major arcana.
Arco Iris

Artist: Marcela Garcia Rodriguez  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 120mm.    Width: 70mm.   Standard  
Date: 2001.  Publisher: Editorial Sirio S.A..  Country: Spain
Watercolour or acrylic with airbrushed effects.
Arica Tarot

Artist: James W. Hanlon  Designer: Oscar Ichazo  
79 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are emblematic.  
Height: 278mm.    Width: 142mm.   Large  
Date: 1978.  Publisher: Arica Institute.  Country: USA
Pen line drawings.
Card are supplied with tear off sections which have details about colouring, which the owner is supposed to do. The subtitle reads "Coloring cards for the Game of the Scarab".
Art Nouveau Tarot

Artist: Matt Myers  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are emblematic.  
Height: 111mm.    Width: 61mm.   Standard  
Date: 1989.  Publisher: U.S. Games Systems.  Country: USA
Oil on board.
Tarot Art Nouveau Mignon

Artist: Antonella Castelli  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are emblematic.  
Height: 80mm.    Width: 43mm.   Miniature  
Date: 2003.  Publisher: Lo Scarabeo.  Country: Italy
Pencil drawings coloured with watercolour.
This was also issued in a full sized version. It is also known as the Primavero Tarot.
Art of Tarot

Artist: Emma Garner  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 120mm.    Width: 80mm.   Standard  
Date: 2001.  Publisher: Cico Books.  Country: UK
Watercolour with collage.
Arthurian Tarot

Artist: Miranda Gray  Designer: Caitlin and John Matthews  
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  
Height: 120mm.    Width: 80mm.   Standard  
Date: 1990.  Publisher: Aquarian Press.  Country: UK
Astral Tarot

Artist: Yurica  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 120mm.    Width: 71mm.   Standard  
Date: 1969.  Publisher: Mont-Saint-Johns.  Country: USA
Pen drawings, black on white.
Astrological Mandala

Artist: A.T. Mann  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 90mm.    Width: 90mm.   Square  Standard  
Date: 1987.  Publisher: Interbook.  Country: Germany
Watercolour drawings.
Atavist Tarot

Artist: Sally Annett  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 127mm.    Width: 88mm.   Standard  
Date: 2003.  Publisher: Foulsham.  Country: UK
Computer manipulated collage of acrylic paintings and photographic material.
Aura Soma

Artist: Phyllis Mahon  Designer:   
100 cards Major and Minor arcana.  nonstandard - Extra set of Major arcana
Height: 130mm.    Width: 90mm.   Standard  
Date: 1997.  Publisher: Aura-Soma.  Country: UK
Australian Contemporary Dreamtime Tarot

Artist: Dr Keith Courtney-Peto  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 120mm.    Width: 80mm.   Standard  
Date: 1991.  Publisher: Goldrope Pty. Ltd..  Country: Australia
Avalon Tarot

Artist: Joseph Viglioglia  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are emblematic.  
Height: 120mm.    Width: 66mm.   Standard  
Date: 2002.  Publisher: Lo Scarabeo.  Editor: Pietro Alligo.  Country: Italy
Pen drawings with watercolour or acrylic.
Tarot of the Ayrshire Witches

Artist: Line art by John Upton, colouring by K. Frank Jensen  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are emblematic.  
Height: 85mm.    Width: 51mm.   Miniature  
Date: 2000.  Publisher: K. Frank Jensen.  Country: Denmark
Pen drawings, watercoloured.
This set of tarot designs was apparently made by John Upton for use within a witches coven in Ayrshire in Scotland. The pen drawings were later coloured by K. Frank Jensen and printed in an edition of only six copies. The artwork is naive and in many places explicitly erotic. The designs reflect imagery of importance in late 20th century wicca or witchcraft practices. Thus the Fool, naturally to a pagan witch, is shown as a Bishop.
Balbi Tarot

Artist: Domenico Balbi  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 110mm.    Width: 70mm.   Standard  
Date: 1992.  Publisher: Fournier.  Country: Spain
Barbara Walker Tarot

Artist: Barbara G. Walker  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are emblematic.  
Height: 100mm.    Width: 61mm.   Standard  
Date: 1986.  Publisher: U.S. Games Systems.  Country: USA
Basic Tarot

Artist: Gudrun Dobratz  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 140mm.    Width: 94mm.   Large  
Date: 1997.  Publisher: AG Mueller.  Country: Switzerland
Collage. Photographs with paint.
Euskal Tarot Mitikoa - Basque Mystical Tarot

Artist: Angel Elvira  Designer: Maritxu Guler  
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 110mm.    Width: 70mm.   Standard  
Date: .  Publisher: Fournier.  Country: Spain
Line drawings coloured with oils or acrylics.
Baumtarot

Artist: Tilman Michalski   Designer: Illustrations for the book 'Madru - oder Der Grosse Wald' by Frederik Hetmann  
22 cards Major arcana only  
Height: 91mm.    Width: 58mm.   Miniature  
Date: 2000.  Publisher: Koenigafurt Verlag.  Country: Germany
Tarot de Belmont

Artist: Françoise Corboz  Designer:   
22 cards Major arcana only  
Height: 130mm.    Width: 100mm.   Large  
Date: 1995.  Publisher: Lang, SRL.  Country: Switzerland
Fine line pen drawings, coloured with watercolour.
Beth's Floral Ellipse

Artist: Beth Crawford  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 120mm.    Width: 80mm.   Ovals  Standard  
Date: 1994.  Publisher: Self published Blinbeth Enterprises..  Country: USA
Acrylic or watercolour paintings. Oval in form.
Black Tarot

Artist: Luis Royo and Pilar San Martin  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 109mm.    Width: 60mm.   Standard  
Date: 1998.  Publisher: Fournier.  Country: Spain
Oil paintings
Black Flamingo Tarot

Artist: Maria Kruse  Designer:   
22 cards Major arcana only  
Height: 115mm.    Width: 85mm.   Standard  
Date: 2004.  Publisher: Self published Maria Kruse.  Country: USA
Mostly acrylic paintings but with some cards porduced using computer graphics.
Book of Kaos Tarot

Artist: Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule  Designer:   
80 cards Major and Minor arcana.  
Height: 140mm.    Width: 94mm.   Standard  
Date: 2004.  Publisher: Self published.  Country: Autralia
Bosch Tarot

Artist: A. Atanassov  Designer:   
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  
Height: 119mm.    Width: 66mm.   Standard  
Date: 2000.  Publisher: Lo Scarabeo.  Editor: Pietro Alligo.  Country: Italy
Coloured pencil drawings.
Dovilio Brero - Vivere una vita

Artist: Dovilio Brero  Designer:   
22 cards Major arcana only  
Height: 127mm.    Width: 68mm.   Standard  
Date: .  Publisher: Centre d'art VAAS.  Country: France
18 oil paintings and 4 images from sculptures.
Bruegel Tarot

Artist: Guido Zibordi Marchesi  Designer: Pietro Alligo  
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  
Height: 120mm.    Width: 61mm.   Standard  
Date: 2003.  Publisher: Lo Scarabeo.  Country: Italy
Brotherhood of Light

Artist: Uncredited  Designer: CC Zain (Elbert Benjamine)  
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  
Height: 107mm.    Width: 63mm.   Standard  
Date: 1936.  Publisher: Church of Light.  Country: USA
Tarot das Bruxas

Artist: Rodval Matias  Designer: Alexandre Rampazo  
22 cards Major arcana only  
Height: 138mm.    Width: 76mm.   Standard  
Date: .  Publisher: Alemdalenda.  Country: Brasil
Buckland Romani

Artist: Lissanne Lake  Designer: Michelle Dillaire and Raymond Buckland  
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are emblematic.  
Height: 117mm.    Width: 70mm.   Standard  
Date: 2001.  Publisher: Llewellyn Publications.  Country: USA
Guache or water based acrylic.
Buddha Tarot

Artist: Robert M. Place  Designer:   
79 cards Major and Minor arcana.  Minor arcana are pips.  
Height: 117mm.    Width: 70mm.   Standard  
Date: 2004.  Publisher: LLewellyn.  Country: USA
Thick line drawings coloured, probably using computer graphics.
B.O.T.A.

Artist: Uncredited  Designer: Paul Foster Case  
78 cards Major and Minor arcana.  
Height: 105mm.    Width: 63mm.   Standard  
Date: 1931.  Publisher: Builders of the Adytum.  Country: USA