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Caravaggio "The Fortune Teller" 1596-97
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian 1573-1610)
Oil on canvas,
The Louvre, Paris
Caravaggio pushed his figures up against the picture plane and used dramatic lighting which gives his paintings a quality of immediacy. He portrayed realistic observations of the physical and emotional human state. These combined characteristics had a formative influence on Baroque painting.
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A foppishly dressed young man looks to have his future read by a young gypsy girl, who deftly slips the ring off his finger unawares.
Caravaggio "The Fortune Teller" 1596-97
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Italian 1573-1610)
Oil on canvas,
The Louvre, Paris
Caravaggio pushed his figures up against the picture plane and used dramatic lighting which gives his paintings a quality of immediacy. He portrayed realistic observations of the physical and emotional human state. These combined characteristics had a formative influence on Baroque painting.
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A foppishly dressed young man looks to have his future read by a young gypsy girl, who deftly slips the ring off his finger unawares.