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	The Cardsharps - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Rich with detail, Caravaggio’s The Cardsharps (1596) portrays two cheaters and their unwitting victim playing cards.
		Although the work narrates a victory of the dishonest over the naive, Caravaggio is more concerned with telling a story than teaching a moral lesson.
		The thoughtful concentration of the youth, the probing eyes of the cardsharp, and the twisted arm of his partner typify the richness of Caravaggio’s scenes from everyday life, many of which became popular during the painter’s lifetime.
	encarta.msn.com /media_1500764_761572212_-1_1/The_Cardsharps.html (78 words)

	The Fortune Teller (Caravaggio) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fortune Teller is one of two known genre pieces done by Caravaggio in the year 1594, the other being Cardsharps.
		The Fortune Teller is believed to be the earlier of the two, and dates from the period during which the artist had recently left the workshop of the Giuseppe Cesari to make his own way selling paintings through the dealer Costantino.
		Giustiniani's friend, Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, purchased the companion piece, Cardsharps, in 1595, and at some point in that year Caravaggio entered the Cardinal's household.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Fortune_Teller_(Caravaggio) (465 words)

	CARDSHARK Online - Michelangelo Caravaggio: The Card Sharpers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In addition the Cardsharps became the model piece for many other works on the cheating theme, painted later by Caraveggio's followers.
		His painting, The Cardsharps, makes it obvious that he was familiar, if not quite possibly even associated with rip-off artists of the era.
		The Cardsharps, lost for almost a century, is a genre painting (a painting showing an everyday activity of ordinary people) and is considered one of Caravaggio's early masterpieces.
	cardshark.us /fr_art_caravaggio.html (281 words)

	The Calling of St Matthew (Caravaggio) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The painting depicts the story from the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 9:9): Jesus saw a man named Matthew at his seat in the custom house, and said to him, "Follow me", and Matthew rose and followed him.
		In some ways, most of the plebeian, nearly life-sized inhabitants of Levi's money table are the equivalent, if not modeled by those persons in other Caravaggio paintings, including Caravaggio's famous secular genre paintings of The Cardsharps (1595).
		Other related paintings of cardsharps include the Caravaggisti depiction of Valentin de Boulogne in the National Gallery of Art [7].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Calling_of_St_Matthew_(Caravaggio) (739 words)

	Abracadabra
		Johnson's book is the story of Vernon's quest for one of these sharps, a man who was said to perform a maneuver so difficult that it may as well have been real magic: the center deal.
		With a single deal from the center of the deck, this cardsharp could make all the rules and the very laws of chance itself vanish." But Vernon didn't believe the fairy tale; the center deal was impossible.
		He asked the cardsharp -- who was in jail not for gambling but murder, "You've played cards all your life, have you ever seen anything you don't understand?" He had.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/06/AR2005100601509_pf.html (1108 words)

	The Cardsharps by CARAVAGGIO
		The Cardsharps, lost for almost a century, has been found and is now in Texas, and helps to fill in an important stage in the development of Caravaggio's art.
		Behind a table that protrudes into the spectator's space, a youthful innocent studies his cards, overlooked by a sinister middle-aged man, whose fingers signal to another, younger scoundrel to his right, who holds a five of hearts behind his back.
		Caravaggio was less melodramatic than many of the artists known as the Caravaggisti who painted in his style, and he suggests only enough of the interaction between the three actors to imply the sequel.
	www.wga.hu /html/c/caravagg/01/08cardsh.html (166 words)

	Caravaggio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This, however, was in the future: at the time, Caravaggio sold it for practically nothing.
		The Cardsharps — showing another unsophisticated boy falling the victim of card cheats — is even more psychologically complex, and perhaps Caravaggio’s first true masterpiece.
		Like the Fortune Teller it was immensely popular, and over 50 copies survive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caravaggio (5076 words)

	Review/Art; Caravaggio: A Tale of Two Lutes - New York Times
		It juxtaposes these works with related prints, musical scores and instruments to give a vivid sense of the cultural milieu of the late 16th century, in which Caravaggio was fortunate enough to find himself.
		''The Cardsharps'' and ''The Fortune Teller'' may represent commedia dell'arte characters whom Caravaggio encountered at the theater, but they are moralizing tales about deception and innocence.
		''The Cardsharps,'' long thought to be lost, suddenly reappeared in 1987, when it was bought by the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth from a European private collection.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE5D9133CF93AA35751C0A966958260 (573 words)

	On the Trail of Old Masters
		He suffered several years of poverty until, in 1595, Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte purchased The Cardsharps and invited the painter to come live in the Palazzo Madama and to accept a stipend.
		Instead of the plump, fleshiness of the Hermitage lutanist -- with the soft, sated look found also in the dupes of The Cardsharps and The Fortune Teller -- in this version of The Lute Player the face is hard and the expression less sweet than bovine.
		The features are more sharply defined, the eyebrows severely geometrized, and the complexion pink, rather than fleshtone.
	www.jasonkaufman.com /articles/trail_of_an_old_master_.htm (1299 words)

	North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts
		He spent the last four years of his life wandering from city to city in Italy and died at the age of 39 from malaria.
		The Cardsharps is a genre painting--a painting showing an everyday activity of ordinary people; it is considered one of Caravaggio's early masterpieces.
		It was sold to an influential man, Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, who gave Caravaggio protection in his palace and introduced him to other important people in Rome.
	www.art.unt.edu /ntieva/artcurr/alsp/caravagg.html (813 words)

	CARDSHARK Online - Art History of Cheating
		The most influential painting from the cheating theme is Caravaggio's The Cardsharps (see image).
		If the 17th Century musicians were able to play elaborate compositions on all kinds of instruments, I believe that we should not underestimate the skills of the 17th Century cardsharpers.
		In fact I think that the skills of the ancient card sharpers were only limited to the fact that playing cards of the era were not of the same quality as those produced today.
	cardshark.us /art_frs.shtml (650 words)

	The Piddinghoe Gamers
		After the players determine how much money can be won at the casino tables they play their character cards and move their pawns to a casino table.
		The payout can be multiplied or lost to cardsharps.
		In the beginning the stakes are low but they increase from round to round.
	www.piddinghoegamers.org /Stats/Game.php?id=390 (74 words)

	Games & Gaming
		Livingston's indispensable and fully illustrated guide on to how to detect and protect yourself against cardsharps when playing poker, fljack, gin rummy, and bridge at the table or online.
		If a sucker is born every minute, 525,600 are brought into the world every year, plus 1,440 more in a leap year.
		Filled with practical information, Catching Poker Cheats is also laced with entertaining anecdotes that help drive its lessons home and help reveal the diversity, ingenuity, and mystique of a profession that thrives on human gullibility.
	www.globepequot.com /globepequot/index.cfm?fuseaction=customer.catspinterests&category_code=GAMESGAMING&nav=gamesgaming (213 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE MAGICIAN AND THE CARDSHARP
		Although the old slang term for card cheat is crossroader, denoting the rambling nature of the sharp’s life, that term surely applied better to Vernon, who continually crisscrossed the country in pursuit of his art, than to Kennedy.
		This quiet master, who had unknowingly taught the best, was a cardsharp with roots in the community.
		Gardner’s candidate had died in 1905 in San Francisco in a lurid murder-suicide just as the police, who wanted to question him about the killing of a prostitute in Colorado, were closing in.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/2001/3/2001_3_56.shtml (5846 words)

	The Fortune Teller by CARAVAGGIO
		The genre-scene has been painted over a praying female saint, perhaps the Virgin Mary, and the most likely painter is the Cavaliere d'Arpino.
		The painting also carries the same indication of provenance from Cardinal del Monte's Collection as the Cardsharps.
		In the case of this not-undisputed picture, the smooth way in which the paint is applied suggests a Caravaggesque artist of some note.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /html/c/caravagg/01/07fortun.html (147 words)

	TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
		It's inconceivable that Hollywood could make a film this witty now but the high quality of the writing, the flawless direction and the impeccable performances of the ensemble cast should serve as inspiration for any filmmaker who wants to make a great romantic comedy.
		Sturges' film opens on a cruise ship where we are introduced to 'Colonel' Harry Harrington (Charles Coburn) and his daughter Jean (Barbara Stanwyck), two cardsharps who make their living fleecing the rich.
		Once Jean learns that Charles Pike (Henry Fonda), the son of a wealthy brewer, is on board, she attempts to lure him into her 'trap.' The path to riches, however, is full of unexpected detours.
	www.tcm.com /thismonth/article/?cid=95495&mainArticleId=95493 (991 words)

	An Obituary for Traditional and Classical Cheaters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Once the safe and easy techniques of Neocheating become widely known, difficult classical cheating and risky traditional cheating will cease to exist.
		As knowledge of Neocheating spreads, cardsharps will abandon their inferior forms of cheating and switch to the more potent yet safer and easier Neocheating.
		Then, in turn, those Neocheaters will wipe out the remaining traditional and classical cheaters.
	www.neo-tech.com /neotech/neocheating/appendixb.html (196 words)

	Poetry of Michael Shea - ADDENDA 1994-95
		This is an ensorcelled monster (a Banded Hoon) whose task is to unmask cardsharps by playing a crooked game which only crookedness can beat, and then to slay the cardsharps thus unmasked.
		He has been installed here by a bereaved Mage whose son was slain by gamblers.
		Whom cardsharps stabbed in a den of lies
	www.michaelsheaauthor.com /poetry.htm (278 words)

	GameSpot: New Gangsters 2 screens
		The story will take players up through the ranks of organized crime as Bane tracks down the people responsible for the death of his father.
		Along the way, players will build a team of mobsters with a variety of different skills, such as assassins, cardsharps, and demolition experts.
		For more information about Gangsters 2: Vendetta, take a look at our detailed preview of the game.
	www.gamespot.com /news/2715635.html?print=1 (184 words)

	Blackjack Encyclopedia of Casino Twenty-One: Other Books
		Subtitled: Illustrated Methods of Cardsharps, Dice Hustlers and Other Gambling Swindlers.
		A summary of the tools of the cardsharper, dice hustler and cheat.
		Includes a fljack section (9 pages) with a number of cheating techniques such as the Kentucky step-up, low-high-low stack, underpaying, overpaying, anchorman, short deck, long deck, burning the aces, the turnover, insurance ploys and tipping the hand.
	www.bjrnet.com /member/bjapr/BooksOther.htm (1213 words)

	Bridge Glossary M Index: BridgeHands
		If the missing card is discovered after bidding or play begins, it is returned to the correct hand.
		Mississippi Heart Hand - A rigged deal purportedly used by Whist cardsharps on the Mississippi River steamboats during the late 1800's.
		The unknowing South is allowed to bid a large sum of money on the hand, which is doomed to lose.
	www.bridgehands.com /M/index.htm (2167 words)

	Poker Monster's Tournament Favorites
		Perry describes the cover he used, the heat he received and dealer/player interactions during Las Vegas fljack games for stakes of up to two hands of $200.
		Stories and sketches of the cardsharps who annually descend on Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker.
		Poker Nation: A High-Stakes, Low-Life Adventure into the Heart of a Gambling Country
	www.pokermonster.com /education (1119 words)

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