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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.
Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand (1772–1843), also known as Marie Anne Le Normand, [1] was a French bookseller, necromancer, fortune-teller and cartomancer of considerable fame during the Napoleonic era.
Contemporary Western images of fortune telling grow out of folkloristic reception of Renaissance magic, specifically associated with Romani people. [1] During the 19th and 20th century, methods of divination from non-Western cultures, such as the I Ching , were also adopted as methods of fortune telling in western popular culture.
People professionally or notably involved in occultism during the Age of Enlightenment (18th century) Ulrica Arfvidsson. Ulrica Arfvidsson (1734–1801), politically influential Swedish fortune-teller; Gustaf Björnram (1746–1804), Swedish spiritual medium; Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795), [24] Italian occultist
The Fortune Teller, also known as the Fortune Teller with Soldiers, is an oil on canvas painting dating to approximately 1620 by French painter, Valentin de Boulogne, a follower of Caravaggio. It is now held in the Toledo Museum of Art , in Toledo , Ohio.
Jeane Dixon (January 5, 1904 – January 25, 1997) was one of the best-known American psychics and astrologers of the 20th century, owing to her prediction of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, [1] [2] her syndicated newspaper astrology column, some well-publicized predictions, and a best-selling biography.
The Fortune Teller, by Enrique Simonet (1899; canvas; Museo de Málaga), depicting a palm reading. Pagtatawas by reading melted alum; pallomancy: by pendulums (Greek pallein, ' to sway ' + manteía, ' prophecy ') palmistry/palm reading → see somatomancy (Latin palma, ' palm ')
Kazuko Hosoki (細木 数子, Hosoki Kazuko, 4 April 1938 – 8 November 2021 [1]) was a Japanese fortune teller and writer. She was an author of over 100 books. In addition to her regular celebrity appearances on Japanese television, she was known for her belief that ancestor worship is central to Japanese identity.