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The Fortune Teller is a painting by Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. It exists in two versions, both by Caravaggio, the first from c. 1594 (now in the Musei Capitolini in Rome), the second from c. 1595 (which is in the Louvre museum, Paris). The dates in both cases are disputed.
Qareat El Fengan (Arabic: قارِئةُ الفِنجان; "The Fortune Teller", literally "The Coffee Cup Reader") [1] is a poem written by Nizar Qabbani and performed by Abdel Halim Hafez. He sang it for the first time in April 1976. The song is considered to be one of the classic Arabic songs, and one of the most notable Abdel Halim songs.
Josephine and the Fortune-Teller is an 1837 history painting by the British artist David Wilkie. [1] It depicts a story about the young Joséphine de Beauharnais visiting a fortune teller on her native island of Martinique, who predicts her future in France as the wife of Emperor Napoleon.
"The Hollow of the Three Hills" is a story published in 1830 by the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne.It is considered to be his first published short story. The story is about a young woman who asks a fortune teller for information about the fate of her family. During their evening meeting in a hollow in the forest, the fortune teller (whether she is a witch remains unclear) conjures up ...
Pique Dame is a revised version of Suppé's earlier (and unsuccessful) one-act operetta on the same subject, Die Kartenschlägerin ("The Fortune Teller") which had premiered in Vienna in 1862. Suppé expanded the earlier version to two acts and retitled it Pique Dame , the French title of Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades" , on which its libretto ...
The "fortune teller guru" was clearly convincing. "I think I even accepted the offer the next day," added McConaughey. If anyone is holding out hope for a sequel decades later, Hudson has some ...
The story about the fortune-teller Guañameñe is mainly due to the friar Alonso de Espinosa, who in his work Historia de Nuestra Señora de Candelaria mentions that the Guanches had been warned by the fortuneteller that some white people were to come inside large birds by the sea.
The Fortune Teller is an operetta in three acts composed by Victor Herbert, with a libretto by Harry B. Smith.After a brief tryout in Toronto, it premiered on Broadway on September 26, 1898, at Wallack's Theatre and ran for 40 performances.