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"La Fornarina (The Portrait of a Young Woman) is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael, made between 1518 and 1519. It is an oil-on-panel with 86 x 58 cm dimensions, located in Room IX of the Borghese Gallery.In Olimpia Aldobrandini's two inventories (1626 and 1682), the art work is attributed to Raphael.
The Fornarina has a symmetric face, is wearing a turban scarf on her head, is dressed in a green velvet gown, and is adorned in gold jewellery. [13] The turban is a typical hairstyle found in high Italian Renaissance artworks. [14] Her bare skin, naked shoulders, and draping dress underscore the desirability of her body. [15]
Margarita Luti (also Margherita Luti or La Fornarina, "the baker's daughter") was the mistress and model of Raphael. The story of their love has become "the archetypal artist–model relationship of Western tradition", [4] yet little is known of her life. Of her, Flaubert wrote, in his Dictionary of Received Ideas, "Fornarina. She was a ...
English: The Portrait of a Young Woman (also known as La fornarina) is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael, made between 1518 and 1519. Українська: Картина Рафаеля «Форнаріна».
La velata, or La donna velata ("The woman with the veil"), is a well known portrait by the Italian Renaissance painter Raffaello Sanzio, more commonly known as Raphael.The subject of the painting appears in another portrait, La Fornarina, and is traditionally identified as the fornarina (bakeress) Margherita Luti, Raphael's Roman mistress.
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abaco - abacus; abat-jour - bedside lamp; abate - abbot; abbacchiato - depressed/down; abbacinare - to dazzle; abbacinato - dazzled; abbagliante - dazzling