La Fornarina

Date: 1516
Medium: oil on board
Location: Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy

Portrait of a young woman or the Baker (it. La fornarina). It is most likely Margherita Luti, Rafael's lover. The woman has a band on her left arm with the author's signature (RAPHAEL URBINAS). According to some historians, the position of his hand is to cover a cancerous tumor, but it is true that this gesture plays an important role in the overall composition of the painting and is also understood as a symbol of love. X-rays of the painting revealed that beneath the background lay a Vinci-style landscape of myrtle groves dedicated to Venus, the goddess of love.

Raffael painted picture La Fornarina in 1516. Prevailing color of this fine art print is dark and its shape is portrait. This art piece is located in Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Rafael (1483-1520). Italian painter and architect of the Renaissance. His full name was Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. His works are admired for the simplicity of form and composition, and elegance with which he captured the neoplatonic ideal of beauty of the human body. Along with the Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael is among the three greatest masters of his time. Rafael was very hardworking and ran an unusually large workshop (for example, he painted the frescoes in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican). During his life, he greatly influenced the world of art; however, after his early death, this influence was overshadowed by the similarly active Michelangelo. His compositions were studied and admired as a model of academic painting until the 19th century. His paintings are characterized by the beauty and dignity of character, precision and purity of painting.