Tarot de Marseille

The Tarot de Marseille is the canonical European tarot pattern: bold black woodblock outlines filled with flat pochoir stencil colour in a strict limited palette. Nicolas Conver's 1760 deck fixed the form — red, ochre, blue, flesh and occasional green sit in unshaded fields, registration drifting a hair off the line. It is craft, not illustration. Here the deck is staged on its own stencil-blue ground, the stated primary pulled from background to centre stage. Vermilion and ochre carry accent, the black outline holds everything together, and nothing is allowed to blend, gradient, or soften into modern shading.

马赛塔罗是欧洲塔罗的范本：粗黑的木刻轮廓，内里用镂版（pochoir）一色一色平涂 填上去，颜色被限定在一组很窄的传统色里——红、赭、蓝、肉色，偶尔一点绿，全是 没有过渡的平涂色块。尼古拉·孔韦尔 1760 年的那副牌把这套样式定了型，套色时刻意 让颜色压不准轮廓线，差那么一丝，正是手工木刻的标记。 这套设计把牌面立在它自己的镂版蓝底上——蓝本是背景，如今被请到台前，作为主色。 朱红与赭黄做点缀，黑色轮廓把一切框住。这里不许任何渐变、照片式的明暗，也不许 现代韦特牌那种柔和的描绘——只有时代里那组严格的有限色。