Raphael and the Fornarina

This composition, the first of six versions, articulates Ingres’s conception of the art of painting. For him, the oeuvre of the Renaissance artist Raphael was the pinnacle of artistic achievement. Here Ingres draws on Raphael’s relationship with the woman known as “La Fornarina” (the Little Baker), which, according to the biographer Giorgio Vasari, led to the young artist’s death from an excess of lovemaking. Raphael has just sketched the famous portrait of her, and his beloved subject sits on his knee. But Raphael has eyes only for his own creation, which, like Ingres’s representation of its model, meets the viewer’s gaze. This triangle of glances is complicated by the presence of the Virgin in Raphael’s Madonna of the Chair, seen against the back wall, where she resembles the artist’s lover.

Raphael and La Fornarina - 3 minutos de arte

Raphael and the fornarina hi-res stock photography and images - Alamy

Raphaël et la Fornarina XXII

Raphael's La Fornarina (1518-20), EPPH

Antique Art Painting Stengel & Co. Postcard La Fornarina Raffaello Santi Rafael

La Fornarina (chromolitho) by after Raphael

La Fornarina, Raphael, masterstudy pre destruction Art Print by Rochelle Connolley

LA FORNARINA BY RAPHAEL: who she was and where to admire her

Love with Raphael & La Fornarina » The Muse Life

Raphael and La Fornarina – Dr Lizzie Rogers

Raphael and La Fornarina - 3 minutos de arte

Raphael and the Fornarina - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Raphael & La Fornarina

JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES, RAPHAEL ET LA FORNARINA, Old Master Drawings, Old Master Drawings

Portrait of La Fornarina after Sebastian Del Piombo — KLISMOS Gallery