What they learned from the OLD MASTERS: Raphael.
What they learned from the OLD MASTERS? From Raphael. The Portrait of a Young Woman (also known as La fornarina) is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael It is probable that the picture was in the painter’s studio at his death in 1520, and that it was modified and then sold by his assistant Giulio Romano. The woman is traditionally identified with the fornarina (bakeress) Margherita Luti, Raphael’s Roman mistress, though this has been questioned. The woman is pictured with an oriental style hat and bare breasts. She is making the gesture to cover her left breast, or to turn it with her hand, and is illuminated by a strong artificial light coming from the external. Her…