La Fornarina

Directed by	Enrico Guazzoni
Written by	Tullio Gramantieri Alberto Casella Giorgio Pastina Tomaso Smith
Story by	Tullio Gramantieri Sem Benelli
Starring	Lída Baarová
Cinematography	Giuseppe La Torre
Music by	Ezio Carabella Giuseppe Savagnone
Release date	October 1944
Language	Italian

La Fornarina (i.e. "The baker's daughter") is a 1944 Italian historical drama film directed by Enrico Guazzoni and starring Lída Baarová. It is loosely based on real life events of Raphael's model Margarita Luti.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Renaissance Rome: the young painter Raffaello Sanzio meets Margherita, a girl of the people, makes her his model for the painting "La fornarina", becomes her lover and will live with her. The girl will also inspire some Madonnas, but this relationship arouses the jealousies of a beautiful aristocrat who secretly orders the kidnapping of the girl. Raphael falls into a state of prostration and does everything to track down Margherita; but when he finds it again it is too late because, undermined in physical and moral, he undergoes a collapse that leads to his death, on the very day of the Good Friday procession.

Cast

Lída Baarová as Margherita
Walter Lazzaro as Raphael
Anneliese Uhlig as Eleonora d'Este
Loredana as Maria Dovizi
Luigi Pavese as Sebastiano del Piombo
Amilcare Pettinelli as Agostino Chigi
Ugo Sasso as Marzio Taddei
Giorgio Costantini as Giulio Romano
Vinicio Sofia as Baviera
Cesare Fantoni as Cardinal Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena
Pio Campa as Pope Julius II
Nino Marchesini as Governor of Rome
Amina Pirani Maggi as mamma Rosa
Ernesto Zanon as Bramante
Cesare Polesello as Master Timoteo
Amalia Pellegrini as Marozia
Umberto Spadaro as Client at the Tavern

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Raphael

Raphael
List of paintings
Early works	Baronci Altarpiece (1500–1501) St. Sebastian (1501–1502) Resurrection of Christ (1499–1502) Mond Crucifixion (1502–1503) Madonna and Child with the Book (c. 1503) Solly Madonna (c. 1500–1504) Oddi Altar (1502–1504) Conestabile Madonna (c. 1502–1504) Portrait of a Man (c. 1503–1504) Vision of a Knight (1503–1504) The Marriage of the Virgin (1504) Diotallevi Madonna (c. 1504) Portrait of Perugino ¹ (c. 1504) Colonna Altarpiece (c. 1503–1505) St George (c. 1503–1505) Three Graces (c. 1503–1505) St Michael (c. 1504–1505)
Florentine period	Christ Blessing (c. 1502–1504) Portrait of Pietro Bembo (c. 1504) Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga ² (c. 1504–1505) Portrait of Emilia Pia da Montefeltro ² (c. 1504–1505) Small Cowper Madonna (c. 1504–1505) Terranuova Madonna (c. 1504–1505) Madonna del Granduca (c. 1505) St George and the Dragon (c. 1505) Young Man with an Apple (c. 1505) Self-portrait (1504–1506) La donna gravida (1505–1506) Madonna del Cardellino (c. 1505–1506) Young Woman with Unicorn (c. 1505–1506) Madonna del Prato (1506) Madonna with Beardless St Joseph (c. 1506) Portrait of Agnolo Doni (c. 1506) Portrait of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro (c. 1506) Portrait of Maddalena Doni (c. 1506) Ansidei Madonna (1505–1507) Madonna of the Pinks (c. 1506–1507) Bridgewater Madonna (c. 1507–1508) The Deposition (1507) Madonna of the Baldacchino (c. 1506–1508) La belle jardinière (1507–1508) (completed by Ridolfo Ghirlandaio) Canigiani Holy Family (c. 1507–1508) Colonna Madonna (c. 1507–1508) Portrait of a Young Woman (La Muta) (c. 1507–1508) Esterhazy Madonna (c. 1508) Niccolini-Cowper Madonna (1508) Tempi Madonna (1508) St Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1507–1509)
Roman period	Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami (c. 1509) Garvagh Madonna (c. 1509–1510) Portrait of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (c. 1509–1511) Portrait of a Cardinal (c. 1510–1511) Alba Madonna (c. 1511) Madonna of Loreto (c. 1511) The Prophet Isaiah (1511–1512) Madonna of Foligno (c. 1511–1512) Portrait of Pope Julius II (1511, 1512) Galatea (c. 1512) Madonna with the Fish (c. 1512–1514) Madonna della Seggiola (c. 1513–1514) Madonna of the Candelabra (c. 1513–1514) Sistine Madonna (c. 1513–1514) Madonna dell'Impannata (c. 1513–1514) Madonna della Tenda (c. 1513–1514) Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1513–1514) Sibyls (1514) Portrait of Bindo Altoviti (c. 1512–1515) Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (c. 1514–1515) Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary (c. 1514–1516) Creation of the World (1516) Portrait of Andrea Navagero and Agostino Beazzano (1516) Portrait of Cardinal Bibbiena (c. 1516) La velata (c. 1516) Visitation (c. 1517) Ecstasy of St Cecilia (c. 1514–1517) Madonna with the Blue Diadem (c. 1510–1518) The Holy Family of Francis I (1518) St. Michael Vanquishing Satan (1518) Ezekiel's Vision (c. 1518) Portrait of Doña Isabel de Requesens y Enríquez de Cardona-Anglesola (with Giulio Romano) (c. 1518) St Margaret and the Dragon (c. 1518) La Fornarina (1518–1519) Small Holy Family (c. 1518–1519) (with Giulio Romano) Portrait of a Young Woman (c. 1518–1519) (with Giulio Romano) Transfiguration (1516–1520) Madonna de Bogota (c. 1517–1520) Portrait of Pope Leo X with Two Cardinals (c. 1518–1520) Madonna of the Rose (1518–1520) Self-Portrait with a Friend (1518–1520)
Raphael Rooms	The Parnassus (1509–1511) The School of Athens (1509–1511) Disputation of the Holy Sacrament (1510–1511) Cardinal and Theological Virtues (1511) The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple (1511–1512) The Mass at Bolsena (1512–1514) The Meeting of Leo the Great and Attila (1513–1514) Deliverance of Saint Peter (1514) The Fire in the Borgo (c. 1514–1517) (executed by Giulio Romano)
Tapestry cartoons	Miraculous Draught of Fishes (1514–1516) Christ's Charge to Peter (1514–1516) Healing of the Lame Man (1514–1516) Death of Ananias (1514–1516) Stoning of St. Stephen (1514–1516) Conversion of the Proconsul (1514–1516) Sacrifice at Lystra (1514–1516) St Paul in Prison (1514–1516) St Paul Preaching in Athens (1514–1516)
Drawings	Lucretia (1500s) Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1508)
Sculptures	Jonah (1520) (executed by Lorenzetto) Elijah (c. 1520–1524) (executed by Lorenzetto and Raffaello da Montelupo)
Buildings	Chigi Chapel (1507–1520) (continued by other architects) Palazzo Jacopo da Brescia (1515–1519) Palazzo Branconio dell'Aquila (c. 1520) Sant'Eligio degli Orefici (1509–1575) (completed by Baldassare Peruzzi and Bastiano da Sangallo) Villa Madama (1518–1525) (completed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and other disciples) Villa Farnesina (decoration)
Related	Giovanni Santi (father) Imperia Cognati (mistress and model) Margarita Luti (mistress and model) Giulio Romano (disciple and collaborator) Raphael and La Fornarina (1813 painting) Raphael (1894 opera) La Fornarina (1944 film) Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module SS Raffaello Raphael (crater) Vatican loggias
¹ Also attributed to Lorenzo di Credi ² Attributed