Sola Busca tarot

A complete Renaissance deck from 1491: strange, vivid, and illustrated throughout.

Sola Busca is not a rough draft of modern Tarot. It is a complete Renaissance object with its own warriors, vessels, machines, jokes, injuries, ambitions, and unresolved code. To read it is to stand close to something that survived without becoming simple.

Made

Engraved c. 1490; coloured in Venice, 1491

Attributed to

Nicola di Maestro Antonio (?)

Early owner

Probably Marin Sanudo the Younger

Technique

Engraving, then hand colouring

Cards

78, complete and fully illustrated

Now held by

Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

The fifteenth-century artwork is public domain. Specific photographs, scans, facsimiles, colour restorations, and modern editions may carry separate rights. Pulp's source files were checked card by card; a repository mirror is transport, not the legal basis for use.