Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions at the Morgan Library - NYIABF Lecture
New York International Antiquarian Book Fair
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Bonifacio Bembo, Time, from the Visconti-Sforza Tarot, Lombardy, ca. 1456–58. Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.630.10
Exhibition curators Josh O’Driscoll and Frank Trujillo will speak about the origins of Tarot in Renaissance Italy, the earliest surviving decks from the fifteenth century, and the cards’ ongoing relevance as a source for artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Trujillo is the Drue Heinz Book Conservator in the Morgan’s Thaw Conservation Center and Josh O’Driscoll is the Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Morgan Library and Museum.
About the speakers:
Joshua O’Driscoll, Morgan Library & Museum, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Associate Curator (left) and Frank Trujillo, Drue Heinz Book Conservator at The Morgan Library & Museum (right)