\nIt was made in the ’80s and in the ’90s by Niki de Saint Phalle<\/strong>, a French artist who was inspired by the Park Guell in Barcelona and the Park of the Monsters of Bomarzo.<\/p>\n
These wonders of art and architecture have established in Niki the desire and the need to create a place where man and nature coexist in harmony.Some friends gave her a large land in the heart of the Maremma, a short distance from the border with Lazio, and here began her work.<\/p>\n
Niki de Saint Phalle has populated the garden of gigantic sculptures<\/strong>, between 12 and 15 meters high, representing the symbols and figures of the tarot<\/strong>. All 22 major arcana<\/strong> are depicted. Some sculptures have a hollow space inside which was used by her as a house during the construction of the park.<\/p>\n All the works are made of concrete and covered with a mosaic of colored glass and ceramic tiles<\/strong>. Among the most famous are: the Emperor, the Empress, the Death, the Devil, the Fool, the Justice. Their arrangement inside the garden is definitely suggestive.<\/p>\n Once you enter the Tarot Garden, you are free to visit the park independently by walking along its paths<\/strong>. Even the latter are often decorated with phrases, colored tiles, aphorisms, drawings and thoughts of the artist.<\/p>\n Rich in esoteric and symbolic meaning, the impressive sculptures of the park transport the visitor into a magical and evocative world. The artist’s intention was precisely to create a corner of paradise in which man and nature meet and live together in harmony<\/strong>. The realization of the park, as we see it today, also collaborated with several contemporary artists including Jean Tinguely, husband of Niki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Charming artistic park in the heart of the Maremma: the Tarot Garden The Tarot Garden is a large artistic park located in Capalbio, in the Garavicchio area. It was made in the ’80s and in the ’90s by Niki de Saint Phalle, a French artist who was inspired by the Park Guell in Barcelona and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[293,294],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-escursioni-en","tag-natura-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maremma.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maremma.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maremma.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maremma.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maremma.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maremma.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"https:\/\/www.maremma.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maremma.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maremma.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maremma.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maremma.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/maremma.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/niki-de-saint-phalle-67682_960_720-650x433.jpg\")
<\/p>\nThe sculptures of the Tarot Garden<\/h3>\n