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Margarita Luti

"Fornarina" redirects here. For the painting, see La Fornarina. For the singer, see Fornarina (singer).
La donna velata (c. 1516); the pearl (Latin: margarita) adorning her hair may allude to the name of Raphael's mistress and model; her stray curl exemplifies the "studied carelessness" or sprezzatura celebrated in The Book of the Courtier by his friend Baldassare Castiglione; height 82 centimetres (32 in), width 60.5 centimetres (23.8 in); at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence[1][2][3]

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 beautiful woman. That is all you need to know."[4][note 1]

  1. ^ "N. Cat. 00160382". Polo Museale Fiorentino. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  2. ^ Locker, Jesse (2009). Raphael: La donna velata. Portland Art Museum. ISBN 978-1-883-12430-4.
  3. ^ McMahon, Barbara (18 June 2005). "Art sleuth uncovers clue to secret Raphael marriage". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
  4. ^ a b Lathers, Marie (2001). Bodies of Art: French Literary Realism and the Artist's Model. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 60ff. ISBN 978-0-8032-2941-9.


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