Legend - The Arthurian Tarot
2003
Anna-Marie Ferguson
USA
Art Medium:
Watercolour paintings.
Description:
The imagery of the Majors is clearly based on the traditional tarot images. The Majors have an additional title of one of the characters or key places from the Arthurian tales. Thus the Fool is subtitled Percivale, the magician is Merlin, Hanged Man as Castle Perilous, Temperance as the Cauldron of Annwn. The Minors do not follow the emblems of the Rider-Waite but depict scenes drawn from the legends. These have descriptive subtitles - Ace of Spears is The Grail Lance, Seven of Swords is the Sword in the Stone, Two of Cups has Tristram and Isolt, and Seven of Shields is Castle of Wonders.
