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For her sake he refused to marry the great Cardinal Bibbiena's well-dowered niece, Maria, and the world has not ceased to believe that for too much love of the Fornarina he died. But before that, as Fabio Chigi tells, Pope Leo the Tenth, being distressed by the painter's love sickness, asked Agostino Chigi if there were not some way to bring him back to work.
What a struggle to repress nature's feelings in the other! Here is a Guido! sweet, as his ever are! He may justly be styled the female laureat. What artist can compete with him in delineating the blooming expression, or the tender, but lighter, shades of female loveliness? who can pause between even the Fornarina, and that divine effort, the Beatrice Cenci of the Barberini?"
The others, to be spoken of afterwards, are Raphael's 'Fornarina, Titian's 'Bella Donna, and Rubens' 'Straw Hat. About the original of 'La Jaconde' there never has been a mystery such as there has been about the others. At this portrait the unsatisfied painter worked at intervals for four years, and when he left it he pronounced it still unfinished.
In his opinion love, a mere matter of the senses to inferior beings, was to great souls the most immense of all moral creations and the most binding. To justify d'Arthez, he instanced the example of Raffaele and the Fornarina. He might have offered himself as an instance for this theory, he who had seen an angel in the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse.
She was called the Fornarina, just as you may be called the Coutouriere, and he painted her portrait in the characters of saints and of the Virgin. She will be remembered a thousand years, because Raphael so loved and painted her. But he was not a great artist only because he loved the Fornarina. He had something that he loved better, and so have I." "One more beloved than Suzette?" she cried.
On her neck, only partially veiled by a thin scarf, there was the glitter of jewels; and, as she now turned her full face towards the moon, Kenelm saw that she was very handsome, a striking kind of beauty, calculated to fascinate a poet or an artist, not unlike Raphael's Fornarina, dark, with warm tints.
On her neck, only partially veiled by a thin scarf, there was the glitter of jewels; and, as she now turned her full face towards the moon, Kenelm saw that she was very handsome, a striking kind of beauty, calculated to fascinate a poet or an artist, not unlike Raphael's Fornarina, dark, with warm tints.
John, a few yards off, is keeping his mother from coming nearer. She looks down, not at Christ; but tries to come. And now you may go on for your day's seeings through the rest of the gallery, if you will Fornarina, and the wonderful cobbler, and all the rest of it. I don't want you any more till to-morrow morning.
The most beautiful frame, which Raphael could find for the divine forms of Fornarina and Titian for the roseate body of his beloved, was dark furs." "Thanks for the learned discourse on love," said Wanda, "but you haven't told me everything. You associate something entirely individual with furs." "Certainly," I cried. "I have repeatedly told you that suffering has a peculiar attraction for me.
Sanin was especially struck that day by the exquisite beauty of her hands; when she smoothed and put back her dark, glossy tresses he could not take his eyes off her long supple fingers, held slightly apart from one another like the hand of Raphael's Fornarina.
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