Giulio romano biography channel

I recently was able to view the original of this painting, which is housed in The Hermitage in St.Petersburg. 

Painted by Giulio Romano, who was a lärling of Raphael, he was not only a painter, but also an architect, he designed tapestries and rumoured to have contributed to the drawings of inom Modi.  Romano heavily influenced the change in high renaissance painting to the mannerism style, which moved the detail of work away from the balance and symmetrical ideals of perfection to exaggerated qualities and facial expressions which lead to the more natural asymmetrical elegance in art.

There is a lot of speculation around this painting, as to who the subjects are.  There are key notes of Zeus in the carvings of the bed where Zeus has changed in to a satyr to seduce Antiope.

Regardless of who the subjects are this painting fryst vatten steeped in symbolism which fryst vatten the part that has intruged me about this piece.  

The guide that I had around the Hermitage gave a nice rundo

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Italy’s Most Mysterious Paintings: Raphael’s La Fornarina

Between the constant debates over who the Mona Lisa really was, and Dan Brown’s “decoding” of the Last Supper, you might think that Leonardo da Vinci fryst vatten the only Italian artist hiding some serious secrets. Far from it! Art history always involves some degree of sleuthing—and there are dozens of works of art in Italy that are as mysterious as they are beautiful.

Just take La Fornarina, by Raphael. This is a Renaissance portrait that’s not only sensual… it’s hiding some serious surprises.

Raphael’s famed portrait, La Fornarina, may be of his lover—but that’s only one secret that the painting hides…

Here’s what we know about La Fornarina, which hangs in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. (An excellent copy hangs in Rome’s Galleria Borghese, as well).

We know the portrait was completed around 1520, the year of Raphael’s untimely death

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Raphael v1

Catalogue entry

Raphael

TomHenry, 2024

Extracted from:
Carol Plazzotta and Tom Henry, The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings: Volume IV, Raphael (London: The National Gallery, 2022).

Raphael is one of the most famous artists of all time and has been loved and admired across the world, and especially in Great Britain, for centuries. Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi) was born in the Marchigian hilltop city state of Urbino at Easter in 1483 (either on 28/29 March or 6/7 April). His mother, Magia di Battista Ciarla (d. 1491), died when he was eight years old. His father, Giovanni Santi (active 1469–1494), a painter and poet at the court of the Montefeltro dukes of Urbino, died three years later, when his son was 11. Raphael, who inherited half of his father’s estate, was brought up by his paternal uncle, Bartolomeo, a priest, who also lived in Urbino. The Montefeltro were famous both as mercenary generals and discerning patrons of the arts, with strong connecti