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CERQUOZZI, Michelangelo: Soldiers Playing Dice

🖼 Soldiers Playing Dice, 1630s
Oil on canvas
51 × 41 cm

Soldiers hunched over dice, rendered in warm chiaroscuro with masterful attention to fabric texture and shadowed faces. Cerquozzi captures brutal realism of military life, establishing the *bambocciata* genre of low-life Italian scenes that influenced Northern European art.

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