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Sacred Rose Tarot      1982 Johanna Gargiulo-Sherman      USA                                                   Art Medium: Pen and watercolour with some masking to give white areas. Description: The theme of the Sacred Rose Tarot is the rose as a "symbol of Western consciousness, similar to the lotus in the East." The backs of the cards have five roses. The artist Johanna Sherman used imagery from Byzantine icons and medieval stained glass windows. A limited, signed edition of 1000 with gold edges was published in 1981.