Fornarina-Margarita Luti the mistress and model of Raphael in art

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	Raphael and Fornarina in Art
	Fornarina was the daughter of baker Francesco Lute of Siena, who lived in Rome on Via del Goviero Vecchio in the Trastevere area (where her house with the window of Fornarina, Via Santa Dorotea 20 still shows). As semi-legendary stories say, the girl was Roman love artist who met her by accident, fell in love, bought her from her father for 3,000 gold and took her a villa (allegedly in Via di Porta Settimiana).


	Henri-Joseph Marlet (1771-1847, France) (Attributed) Raphael and La Fornarina Henri-Joseph Marlet (1771-1847, France) Raphael and La Fornarina (enlarged detail)

Fornarina remained his lover and model until the artist's death. Fidelity to her beloved Raphael, as claimed, she did not differ. In particular, it is noted that she became the mistress of Agostino Chigi, for whom Rafael painted Villa Farnesina, and also drew attention to the pupils of the artist. Having received a sufficient fortune after the early death of 37-year-old Raphael, nevertheless, continued to lead a dissolute life and became, as claimed, one of the most famous Roman courtesans.


	Francesco Valaperta Raffaello and Fornarina 1866. Oil on canvas, 128 x 91.5 cm Varese, Civic Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Masnago Castle Photo by Vittorio Calore, Giovanni Rossi Francesco Valaperta (Milan, 1836 – 1908) was an Italian painter. Francesco Valaperta Raffaello and Fornarina (enlarged detail)

"Raffaello in the last days of life, suffering from evil and exhausted by the fatigue of labor, finds in the arms of Fornarina the rest that the living life contends with him"

Rinaldi, Antonio
Raffaello and Fornarina
Dating 1841-45 Technique
Oil on canvas
Size 170.3 x 120.8 cm
LocationÆ Property Canton Pinacoteca Giovanni Züst, Rancate

Johann Evangelist Sheffer von Leonhardskof, German artist of the XIX century
"Raphael and Fornarina"

In his Lives of the Artists, Giorgio Vasari claims that Raphael “could not offer his mind to his work as a result of his infatuation for his mistress”; he even insinuates that this mystery lady might have caused Raphael’s untimely death (attributed to excessive sexual exertion).
Margarita isn't mentioned by Vasari however is known as doubly in sixteenth-century marginalia to the second edition of his Lives of the foremost wonderful Painters, Sculptors, and designers, beside the passage describing La donna velata: “portrait of Margarita, Raphael’s mistress … Margarita”.

Heinrich Lefler
Raphael and La Fornarina
Heinrich Lefler (7 November 1863, Vienna – 17 March 1919, Vienna) was an Austrian painter, graphic artist and stage designer.
His father was the painter, Franz Lefler.


	Nicaise de Keyser Raphael and Fornarina Nicaise de Keyser (alternative first names: Nicaas, Nikaas of Nicasius; 26 August 1813, Zandvliet – 17 July 1887, Antwerp) was a Belgian painter of mainly history paintings and portraits who was one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting.

Medallion sculpture bas-relief bronze Raphael and Fornarina, XIXth century.
Bronze medallion depicting the portrait of the painter Raphael and the Fornarina.
Signed to back: PB


	Felice Schiavoni (1803-1881) Raphael painting the Fornarina Oil on canvas, 1834, 70x53 cm Brescia, Pinacoteca Tosio-Martinengo (Art Gallery)

Pasquale Romanelli
Raphael with his muse Fornarina
white marble

Francesco Vichy
Raphael and Fornarina
19th century
Yekaterinburg - Museum of Fine Arts


	Fornarina and Raphael Fron "Die Gartenlaube", 1869, German


	Fornarina and Raphael

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