Pintura; gitanos; suerte; buena suerte; La Tour; fortuna; Museo Metropolitano; robo; hurto; miradas; suerte - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 14:59:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Pintura; gitanos; suerte; buena suerte; La Tour; fortuna; Museo Metropolitano; robo; hurto; miradas; suerte - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Good fortune https://historylab.es/good-fortune/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=good-fortune Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:28 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-buena-ventura/ An elderly woman, while reading the fortune, distracts a young man while the group of women pick a certain amount of money from his pocket

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]]> The work by the French artist Georges de la Tour draws directly from Caravaggio’s output. The scene adopts a theme made popular in northern Europe through engravings and in Rome by the aforementioned Caravaggio: an old Romani woman (known by the term “gypsy”) tells fortunes to a young man who observes her predictions with a certain distrust. Surrounding him are three female figures with certainly dishonest intentions who are in cahoots with the old woman to rob the young man of various items, thus assimilating a pejorative conception of this ethnic-social group.

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