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Free Online Talk · The Key is in the Images—Using Rare Books to Create Tarot Cards with Elisabeth Brander & Angela He

Join Elisabeth Brander and Angela He, the rare book librarians at Becker Medical Library, who are introducing a new Major Arcana tarot deck they created, along with its historical sources that inspired its creation. Tarot cards are known for their imagery, and Brander and He realized that the images in the library’s Renaissance-era books, which are often steeped in symbolism and allegory, lend themselves quite well to Tarot. The new deck draws on the rare book holdings of Becker Library to explore medical history through the framework of the Tarot, showing how well the two complement each other and how images are often inherently interdisciplinary.

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