Saturday, June 18, 2005

He Came To Mind Immediately


FORNARINA Posted by Hello

"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??

1 Comments:

At 6/18/2005, Blogger Jeff said...

I love art History gossip!!! Do tell us another one!

 

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