The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs by Georges de La Tour
This blog post about La Tour’s The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs includes:
• A fancy pants sucker
• Finger pointing
• Fraud on many levels
• Mastery in 17th century details
Kimbell Art Museum
Girls on a Pier by Edvard Munch
Learn about the symbolic expressions in Girls on a Pier including:
• Pink and feminine youth
• Abyss of the unknown – trees in Girls on a Pier
• A puppy surrounded with Munchian dread
The Cardsharps by Michelangelo Caravaggio
Caravaggio created this painting when he was broke and unknown. Then he chanced upon rich gambler Cardinal de Monte, who loved this piece. It was a lucky draw for the young painter. He’d snagged himself an influential and rich patron.