He Came To Mind Immediately

FORNARINA

"The tiny pearl brooch seems an innocuous detail in Raphael's enigmatic "Fornarina" portrait, but for one group of historians it unlocks a scandalous love affair kept secret for centuries...the pearl, pinned onto an elaborate turban, is part of a web of allusions to the Renaissance artist's clandestine marriage to the beautiful sitter, a baker's daughter..."It was an impossible love affair," says Maurizio Bernardelli Curuz, editor of specialist journal Stile..."It is hard to overstate Raphael's status in Rome -- he was a superstar. The distance separating them was like that which today would separate George Clooney and his cleaner."
George Clooney and his cleaner??
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