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Two celebrated and connected artworks, “The Cardsharps” and “The Cheat With the Ace of Clubs,” provide a tantalizing view into their artistic creation.
Music has been a muse for artists from antiquity through subsequent centuries, with musicians and singers depicted as raconteurs, divinities, and in myths.
A 400-year-old picture that might have been painted by Italian master Caravaggio has been found in an attic in southern France.
