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CARAVAGGIO: The Cardsharps

🖼 The Cardsharps, c. 1596
Oil on canvas
92 × 129 cm
Fort Worth, USA

Caught mid-swindle, three figures huddle around cards in shadow-streaked light, their hands tense with deception. Caravaggio's theatrical chiaroscuro transforms everyday vice into moral drama, establishing genre painting as serious art and influencing centuries of realist depiction.

Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Sebastian Schütze
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