Il Giardino dei Tarocchi, Pescia Fiorentina, Tuscany, Italy

Le Soleil, or The Sun, card no. 18, sculpture 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 sun is a life force which lifts our spirits, and is represented as a bird, the closes animal to the sun, in the tradition of Mexican or American Indian legends. 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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Arcana Concrete Esoteric Fiorentina Giardino Grosseto Monumental Mysteries Niki Pescia Phalle Soleil Tarocchi Tarot Toscana

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