The Met x Lingo playing cards: Portraits

£19.00

The Met x Lingo Portraits deck turns a standard pack of playing cards into a tour of one of the world's great collections. Each card carries a portrait drawn from The Met, from the Portrait of Shun'oku Myoha of around 1383 to Velazquez's Juan de Pareja of 1650, Sargent's Madame X, a commemorative Hemba chief figure known as a Singiti, and Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat. A handsome gift for art lovers, museum visitors and anyone who likes a bit of learning with their card games. Key details: • 52 cards, each showing a work from The Met collection • Key trivia printed alongside every exhibit • Theme: Portraits, the art of capturing a likeness across cultures, eras and media • Part of a Lingo series available in 9 styles, covering subjects from Animals to Armour and the Arts of Asia • Language: English Play any game you like with it, or simply deal a hand and read: the trivia on each card gives you the artist, the era and the context, so a round of rummy quietly doubles as a gallery visit. It also works well laid out for browsing. Buy The Met x Lingo Portraits playing cards online from Cookes Games and shuffle 5,000 years of art.