Lost Tarot of Nostradamus
2012
Will Kinghan
UK
Art Medium:
Digitally ctreated using collaged elements.
Description:
The creators of this tarot have drawn on a series of images found in a number of early manuscripts entitled 'Vaticinia Pontificum' or the 'Vaticinia de Summis Pontificibus' dating back to the Greek Byzantine period which were augmented by incorporating aspects of the celebrated papal prophecies of the medieval Abbot Joachim of Fiore. In the 14th century a number of delightfully illuminated parchment manuscripts were created. You can see illustrations from a number of these on the Internet and they have been known to and described by scholars for many centuries. So these images were not 'lost' in any sense of this word. Secondly, Nostradamus (1503-1566) was writing some two centuries after these 14th century manuscripts were created, so these had nothing at all to do with him. The spurious connection was made in the late 1980s by two Italian journalists more interested in writing a sensationalist popular work than presenting the truth.
