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Updated: June 29, 2025
"The Fornarina" the hat replies to the bonnet, "if that picture at the Borghese Palace be an original, or a likeness of her is not a handsome woman, with vulgar eyes and mouth, and altogether a most mahogany-coloured person.
Here was the Titian Venus of the Tribune, deliciously copied by a French artist: there, the Roman Fornarina, with her delicate grace, beamed like the personification of Raf-faelle's genius.
It is a very queer, as well as a very remarkable picture. But we passed hastily by this, and almost all others, being eager to see the two which chiefly make the collection famous, Raphael's Fornarina, and Guido's portrait of Beatrice Cenci.
Soon after, the Baron stood with an impassioned, romantic lady leaning on his arm, examining a copy of Raphael's Fornarina. "Ach! I wish I had been the Fornarina," sighed the impassioned, romantic lady. "Then, my dear Madam," replied the Baron, "I wish I had been Raphael."
We know little enough of that Margaret, called the Fornarina from her father's profession; but we know that Raphael loved her blindly, passionately, beyond all other thoughts; as Agostino Chigi loved the magnificent Imperia for whom the Farnesina was built and made beautiful.
If she did show it, then, so she argued with herself, she must bring herself to endure the wretchedness of her present lot, and must give up for ever all her dreams about Raphael and Fornarina.
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