Margarita Luti
✓ Source-basedstableItalian mistress and model of Raphael
Lived 1500 to 1522 · aged 22
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Margarita Luti was the mistress and model of Raphael. The story of their love has become "the archetypal artist-model relationship of Western tradition", yet little is known of her life. Of her, Flaubert wrote, in his Dictionary of Received Ideas, "Fornarina. She was a beautiful woman. That is all you need to know."
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![La donna velata (c. 1516); the pearl (Latin: margarita) adorning her hair may allude to the name of Raphael's mistress and model; her stray curl exemplifies the "studied carelessness" or sprezzatura celebrated in The Book of the Courtier by his friend Baldassare Castiglione; height 82 centimetres (32 in), width 60.5 centimetres (23.8 in); at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence[1][2][3]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Raffaello_Sanzio_-_La_Donna_Velata.jpg/1280px-Raffaello_Sanzio_-_La_Donna_Velata.jpg)
La donna velata (c. 1516); the pearl (Latin: margarita) adorning her hair may allude to the name of Raphael's mistress and model; her stray curl exemplifies the "studied carelessness" or sprezzatura celebrated in The Book of the Courtier by his friend Baldassare Castiglione; height 82 centimetres (32 in), width 60.5 centimetres (23.8 in); at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence[1][2][3]
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deceased
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Lived 1500 to 1522 · aged 22
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