The Tattooed Tarot

The Tattooed Tarot is an unusual style of Tarot, with illustrations of tarot imagery tattooed onto people. The major arcana cards show people with Marseilles tarot images tattooed on their bodies, while the minors show a more generic image that corresponds to the card.

The concept for the Tattooed Tarot is one of Pietro Alligo’s endlessly inventive ideas, and has been illustrated for these cards by Cristiano Spadoni. “Tattoos as symbols painted on skin: reflections of the soul on the body… a symbol that expresses or completes the personality of an individual, stressing the person’s potential and desires”.