A true Triumph
This is the most vast site on the history of the Tarot in the world, with a museum, images of cards, profiles of the most important historians and very much more. We believe that everyone, from scholars to simple Tarot enthusiasts, owe the owner of the site, the historian Lothar Teikemeier, the highest gratitude for his profound love of the subject combined with his great competence, having led to the creation unique in its field, exhaustive and continuously updated, thereby facilitating a better transmission of the body of knowledge and the history of the Tarot at an international level. Among other things I believe in the validity of his 5x14 theory on the number of original Trionfi. His conviction, supported by historical documentation, makes Lothar Teikemeier in my opinion a grand Tarot historian.
Alain Bougearel
Information about the French historian Alain Bougearel who has written several articles and publications about tarots.
http://www.sgdl-auteurs.org/alain-bougearel/index.php/pages/Biographie
Ross G. Caldwell web site
A Ross G. Caldwell site, eminent scholar on tarot, where he explains several playing-cards such as the Juggler, the Papessa and the Force.
http://www.angelfire.com/space/tarot
Enrique Eskenazi's Blog
Blog of Enrique Eskenazi, teacher of Logic, Science Philosophy and History of Philosophy. It organized themed courses on Tarot and Symbolism, as well as Jung's Philosophy and more.
http://eeskenazi.blogspot.com/
An elaboration on the history of tarots
Important site on the history of tarot editet by Robert, historian of tarot, with explanations about old decks of cards and a specific forum for discussion.
One of the oldest sites
Andy's Playing Cards is one of the oldest sites about the history of Tarot, exploring regional tarots, the Mulùk cards, Visconti Tarots, those of Marseille, and many others.
http://l-pollett.tripod.com/cards3.htm
Charming theories
On his homepage, Jean-Claude Flornoy offers his thoughts about tarot, with many interesting ancient theories.
An International Association
International Playing-cards Association site about playing-cards and tarot, with members from every continent.
Jean Claude Flornoy web site
A Jean Claude Flornoy site on Marseille Tarot, with many images of cards and researches on symbolism.
An Academy from Bologna
The Academy of Bolognese Tarocchino, whose purpose is the study of history, the production of cards and ancient tarots rules.
http://www.tarocchinobolognese.it
An Encyclopaedia on line
Online encyclopaedia of tarot. Every one can be member to help the site develop and grow.
600 decks of tarots
On this site there are more than 600 hundred decks of cards and information about them. The Forum is about tarot and its story.
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot
A great Publisher
Scarabeo is one of the greatest Publishers in the world that produces decks of Tarots. From 1987 till nowadays, it has edited more than 100 decks and reprints of ancient cards as well, new esoteric, fantastic and celebrative creations.
A great mnemonist
Gianni Golfera has dedicated his whole life to the diffusion of his extraordinary method of mnemonic learning inspired to the Renaissance techniques of the Ars Memoriae. In the web site it is possible to find useful information about his method and more.
The Tarot Wheel. Joseph van Loon web site
A website dealing with the history and the structure of the Tarot. Accent is giving to the development of the Tarot before French and English occultists started using the tarot for occult purposes. The structure of the Tarot deck is explained and how it developed over time. For every single trump card, its development is explained using contemporary art objects.
A site for all seasons
Site of the historian of tarots Jean-Michel David where it is possible to find relevant subjects: other than tarots, you can find essays on philosophy and cabbala, anthroposophy, Freemasonry, etc. Jean-Michel has taught Tarot courses over varying duration since the late 1980s. His current courses include a year-long course in Melbourne and an online pdf-based 30 week course. He was an organiser and a presenter at the 2005 International Tarot Conference. Jean-Michel has also featured on ABC’s Radio National with Rachel Kohn.
Triumphal Cards
Blog edited by the researcher Michael J. Hurst where the XV century cards of Triumph are studied through their production, the provenience and the documents of the time.
http://ludustriumphorum.blogspot.com/
Tarot before esoteric interpretation
Michael J. Hurst can be considered a resercher of fact, not of fiction. He isn't an apologist for occult, paranormal or other New Age nonsense. This his aspect guarantees the scientific soundness of this site.
http://pre-gebelin.blogspot.com/
A Contemporary Art Museum
The Museum of Tarots is pleased to give an opportunity to all artists who have been working on this subject matter and will bring to light what is often at risk of remaining hidden and of being forgotten. The originality of this work consists in being the first centre, in Italy and in the world, which deals with the Art and Tarots in the same level.
http://www.museodeitarocchi.net
An important essayst
Paul Huson’s site. He is author of the Tarot-related The Devil's Picture Book (1972) and of many other books. He published in 2004 Mystical Origins of the Tarot.
Mary K.Greer's Tarot Blog
Among the posts on Mary K. Greer's blog you will find many on tarot history, such as "Origins of Playing Card Divination" (with contributions from Ross G. Caldwell), "Tarot and Playing Cards in Witchcraft," "Tarot Art of the Italian Renaissance," and more contemporary topics like "Carl Jung and Tarot," "The Grail and the Minor Arcana (in the Rider-Waite deck)," a "TV & Movie Watch List," and Harry Herman Roseland's paintings of 19th century American cartomancers. There are also historical and new spreads, reading techniques, videos and photographs of little-known Tarot decks.
http://marygreer.wordpress.com
World Web Playing Card Museum
Site by Alexander Sukhorukov (Moscow, Russia), where it is possible to find 550.000 images of cards (total size 20 Gb) in 10500 departments (6.000 with full decks). There are a lot of tarot and cartomancy decks, but there is no a special list - only by printers/publishers.
A site on the Game and the History of the Minchiate
The Accademia de' Germini was founded in 2008 with the aim of discovering and exploiting the Germini or Florentine Minchiate, an exciting and complex play of the Renaissance period, practiced with 97 cards and in that time spread between nobles and commoners, poets (Aretino) and painters (Bronzino and Lippi). The site can be freely accessed and downloaded a manual on the play of “The noble game of the Florentine Minchiate” that contains a brief history of the game, a bibliography and the complete rules, with a hint of strategy and examples of games.
Michael S. Howard tarot blogs
Essays on tarot history and other subjects. He relates the pre-de Gebelin tarot to mostly 1470-1650 ideas about Dionysus, Neopythagoreanism, Alchemy, Chaldean Oracles, Corpus Hermeticum, Kabbalah, and Hieroglyphs. Also essays on pre 1470 tarot and Etteilla.
http://michaelshoward.blogspot.com/
IBIS: An important and famous Esoteric Bookshop in Bologna
A group of scholars dedicated to Esoterism belonging to traditional initiation schools of the East and the West has created thirty years ago the IBIS Bookshop. Since then, the continued researches and updates have created an extensive catalog that aims at the plurality of the languages in the respect of the tradition. The Esoteric IBIS Bookshop is located in Bologna, in Castiglione Street, 31.