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The Fortune Teller

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Italy

1594

A masterwork of Baroque realism depicting the seductive art of divination — a young Romani woman reads a nobleman's palm while subtly slipping his ring, transforming fortune telling into a metaphor for the illusionistic power of painting itself.


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