Wide view of Venice: Piazza San Marco - Riva degli Schiavoni

L'ASTROLOGO - The Male Astrologer

by Francesco Maggiotto - 1738-1805

Just to make sure that Fortune-Telling - this Heavenly Gift - was not a woman-only skill, we have here a Male Astrologer.

I just liked the image, I didn't put it here to make a point.

Young, long curly hair, sort of a hippy, and female looking, as gypsy looking as a Fortune Teller is expected to be.

He has all the right tools, and the right kind of client: a young woman, definitely poor class, she not even wears shoes.

How come these young ladies are so keen to know their future, anyway?

Maybe is their potentially lucrative marriage their only choice for their future (with the Monastery ...) since they were born.

Francesco Maggiotto: "L'Astrologo" (The Astrologer)
etching and engraving (ca. 1765)

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