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Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions

Master of the Playing Cards, The Queen of Flowers, ca. 1435–40

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — Janet Lee Kadesky Ruttenberg Fund, in honor of Colta Ives, and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 2006

Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions was on view at The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, United States, from June 26, 2026 to October 4, 2026.

Last verified September 26, 2026 · Official source ↗

A two-part exhibition examining tarot's emergence in fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance courts alongside its modern artistic applications. The first section focuses on the origins of the three earliest surviving decks, commissioned by the Dukes of Milan, while the second explores how modern artists adopted tarot imagery as an alternative to the strictures of modernist aesthetics.

Venue

  1. The Morgan Library & Museum
    New York, United States · June 26 – October 4, 2026
    Closed 4 Oct

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A fifteenth-century engraved playing card showing a crowned queen seated among stylised flowers, printed in fine hatched line on cream paper.

Master of the Playing Cards, The Queen of Flowers, ca. 1435–40

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — Janet Lee Kadesky Ruttenberg Fund, in honor of Colta Ives, and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 2006 · Source ↗