Product Description

"The Grail Tarot" re-tells the fabulous grail legend - one of the most famous mysteries the world has ever known - and relates the quest for the sacred Christian relic to our desire to understand the puzzle of our own lives. Characters drawn from over 2,000 years of fascinating Grail history - including the enigmatic Knights Templar - now take their place in the Major Arcana of this superb deck, with the suits represented by the four Grail Hallows: cup, spear, sword and stone. Giovanni Caselli's stunning art is inspired by the beautiful Renaissance paintings of Piero della Francesca. When the cards of the four minor suits, and the majors, are laid face-up and side by side, each group forms a complete story, in the style of an Italian fresco.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #455550 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 78
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

The Grail tarot by John Matthews & Giovanni Caselli
I just received this deck this morning - and I am stunned by the beauty of the deck. I am the happy owner of most all the John & Caitlin Matthews decks, & have many more by other authors. The art of Tarot and Oracle decks have turned me into a collector (albeit a small one:). The Grail deck is a rare treasure, each card worked out beautifully down to the last card, in minute detail. The colourings are gorgeous. I lift my hat to Mr Caselli, he's a true artist. The book is done in lovely sepia colourings. I am very pleased with it .... there is but one thing that I do have to offer (and sadly) and that is ... I find the cards themselves to be rather thin - meaning that one will have treat them very carefully against scuffing or even folding & creasing them, when shuffling them. I love the deck to bits, but this is a bit of a drawback. Still I hope they sell like hotcakes, because anyone will count themselves truly Blessed to have this beautiful deck. L.B. Netherlands

Spiritually potent deck
Concetpually this is a potent and spiritually beautiful deck. Initiatlly I was somewhat put off when I realised it was not a pack of 78 original tarot paintings but a mixture of original work by Giovanni Caselli blended with other visual sources - when unfamiliar these blendings lend a visual oddness. Having become more familiar with the deck, however, the personages depicted, especially in the trumps are amongst the most resonant tarot, indeed religous, icons I've seen. They evince an authentic spiritual dignity encouraging the appropriate approach when working with these cards, despite some otherwise odd pixel mixtures here and there throughout.

Graphically beautiful
This is a beautiful themed deck, with some gorgeous cards such as the 'Cosmic Christ'.The cards lay out a rich tapestry and visually are very pleasing, albeit the quality of the card they are printed on lets the deck down, I don't feel it will have the longevity of other decks which are of a higher standard.I have not found the deck as accessible to read intuitively as others such as The Sacred Circle Celtic Tarot for example, or the now out of print wonderful Glastonbury Tarot, but this is just down to a personal preference.