The Fortune Teller — Caravaggio

Reading one of the first works of the great promoter of the Baroque.

Alejandro Orradre
The Collector
Published in
4 min readNov 21, 2022

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‘The Fortune Teller’ (c. 1595) by Caravaggio. Oil on canvas. 99 x 131 cm. Louvre Museum. Image source Wikimedia Commons

By observing the early works of great artists, we can glimpse the birth of some of the characteristics that years later would make them so recognizable.

In the case of Caravaggio, this birth of his own artistic identity can be seen in The Fortune Teller, a painting that…

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