La Fornarina - Raphael
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
La Fornarina - Raphael
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
La Fornarina, by Raphael. Palazzo Barberini, Rome.
The Portrait of a Young Woman (also known as La fornarina) is a painting by Raphael, made between 1518 and 1519. It can be admired in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica.
It is probable that the picture was in the painter's studio at his death in 1520. The woman is traditionally identified with the fornarina (baker) Margherita Luti, Raphael's Roman lover, though this has been questioned. The woman is pictured with an oriental style hat and bare breasts. She is making the gesture to cover her left breast, or to turn it with her hand, and is illuminated by a strong light coming from outside. Her left arm has a narrow band carrying the signature of the artist, RAPHAEL URBINAS. It has been suggested that the right hand on the left breast reveals a cancerous breast tumour disguised in a classic pose of love. Another speculation is that she is touching her left breast to remind herself which side she last fed her child on, the child being Raphael's, the high renaissance painter. The ring on her finger, covered and recovered, and the unusual band with the painter's signature, along with the fact that Raphael kept the painting reinforce the idea of personal connection between artist and model.
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November 23rd, 2017
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