Notoria: Tarot in Light by Fabio Listrani — Illuminated Art Tarot Deck

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Notoria: Tarot in Light by Fabio Listrani is a 78-card tarot deck of extraordinary artistic ambition, featuring luminous, intricately detailed illustrations that draw on classical esoteric symbolism, Renaissance iconography, and Listrani’s signature richly layered aesthetic. This is a collector’s deck as much as a reading deck — visually immersive and deeply symbolic, it rewards careful study and meditation. Ideal for advanced practitioners and art-forward readers who want a tarot that challenges and expands their visual and interpretive vocabulary.

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• Creator: Fabio Listrani
• Publisher: Lo Scarabeo
• Type: 78-card tarot deck, multilingual edition
• Best for: Collectors, ceremonial magic practitioners, esoteric art enthusiasts

The Ars Notoria and Its Place in the Western Esoteric Tradition

The Ars Notoria is the fifth book of the Lesser Key of Solomon, a seventeenth-century grimoire that itself compiled much older magical manuscripts. Unlike the demonological Goetia, the Ars Notoria focuses on celestial and angelic forces, presenting a system of sacred diagrams, prayers, and invocations intended to confer divine knowledge and illuminate the practitioner's higher faculties. The text was consulted by scholars, monks, and ceremonial magicians throughout medieval and Renaissance Europe, and its imagery of radiant angelic forms and geometric notae has influenced esoteric art ever since.

Fabio Listrani, a Rome-based illustrator who has contributed artwork for Marvel, Titan Comics, and IDW Publishing, has spent over a decade creating tarot decks for Lo Scarabeo. Notoria: Tarot in Light is the direct counterpart to his earlier Goetia: Tarot in Darkness, which drew on the demonological current of the Lesser Key. Together, the two decks represent the dual poles of that tradition, with Notoria embodying the angelic, luminous side. Listrani describes both decks as ceremonial magic tools as much as tarot reading instruments, and his approach to the Arcana reflects that intention.

Notoria Tarot Art: Angelic Iconography as Divination Tool

Each of the 78 cards in Notoria is rendered in Listrani's signature style, combining meticulous figure illustration with dense layers of esoteric symbolism drawn from the Ars Notoria source material. The cards feature archangels, geometric notae, radiating light, and alchemical motifs that reward slow, meditative attention. This is not a deck for quick intuitive pulls; it is designed for practitioners who want to sit with an image and extract meaning from the accumulated visual detail over multiple sessions.

The standard edition includes 78 cards at 70x120 mm with a multilingual instruction booklet. For collectors who backed the Kickstarter campaign, an expanded set with 232-page color book, coins, velvet pouch, tarot mat, and special prints was offered. The retail edition is the 78-card deck with instructional leaflet, which is enough to work with fully given the density of the imagery. The deck pairs naturally with Goetia for practitioners who want to explore the full light-and-shadow duality of the Lesser Key system.

Listrani noted in interviews that the Death card in Notoria breaks his personal tradition, something that holds additional meaning for readers familiar with his body of work. The artistic choices throughout are deliberate and layered, making Notoria as much a collector's object as a divination instrument. If highly rendered symbolic art is what draws you to tarot, this deck delivers that at the level of a fine art project.

How to Use Notoria Tarot in Light

The Tarot Fellow Standard

I carry Notoria because it fills a specific gap: a deck grounded in Western ceremonial magic source material with illustration quality that matches its esoteric ambition. Listrani's Lo Scarabeo work is among the most carefully researched and visually refined in the modern deck market, and Notoria represents the full expression of that. If you want to explore where this deck sits in the broader tarot landscape, browse my tarot decks collection. For books that complement the Ars Notoria and ceremonial magic tradition, explore my esoteric and occult books.

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