Examples of use of La Fornarina
1. In 1814, the French artist Jean–Auguste–Dominique Ingres painted La Fornarina sitting on the artist‘s knee.
2. It was Impressionism that dampened our ability to read a painting like a book." La Fornarina has long fascinated admirers of Raphael‘s work.
3. The distance separating them was like that which today would separate George Clooney and his cleaner." La Fornarina is one of the painter‘s most suggestive portraits.
4. The biggest clue, he says, is the brooch pinned on to the fashionable silk turban of La Fornarina, the kind of expensive bauble a woman would wear on her wedding day.
5. "He had left La Fornarina unfinished, and the students began to fret about the landscape, the ring, anything that could tie it to the marriage." To silence the rumours, Raphael‘s students placed a plaque on his tomb in memory of his fiancee, Bibbiena – and Luti was sent away.