Il Giardino dei Tarocchi, Pescia Fiorentina, Tuscany, Italy

Virgin and child ceramic piece on the altar inside the mirrored interior of the Chapel of the Temperance, at La Temperance, card no. 14, in Il Giardino dei Tarocchi, a sculpture garden by Niki de Saint Phalle, 1930-2002, based on the esoteric tarot, at Pescia Fiorentina, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy. The chapel is topped with a figure of an angel symbolising the right way forward. Niki de Saint Phalle begun the project in 1979 and it opened in 1998, holding 22 monumental sculptures of the Greater Mysteries of the tarot. The sculptures are made from concrete and covered in ceramic and mirrored mosaic pieces. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13442580

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45175579

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4724px x 7087px (10.1MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen