Word: fornarina
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...Picasso's icons, and bits of it recur constantly in Picasso's work - in the 1906 The Harem, 1918's The Bathers, in jokey etchings of 1968-71. In 1968, Picasso also did a series of erotic and scatological etchings based on Ingres' classic painting of Raphael and La Fornarina - taking the bad-boy rebel's backhanded artistic homage back a third generation to the Renaissance master they both revered. After March's whirlwind, April in Paris promises an even purer form of beauty - the chestnut trees will be in bloom...
...addition, The Fogg has placed a plaque beneath one of the musuem's most important paintings, Ingres' Raphael and the Fornarina, in memory of the painting's restorer, who recently died of AIDS...
...Trastevere; its poverty is the deepest, its streets and alleyways the most crowded, its feasting the lustiest in all of Rome. It was in Trastevere that Raphael himself found the baker's full-bosomed daughter whose sensuous charms he bequeathed to the world in the painting La Fornarina...
Life became even more exciting when Byron met Margarita Cogni, La Fornarina (the Little Oven), "a fierce product of Venetian slums and backways." Marianna tried to 'defend her prior rights against Margarita, but was crushed by superior logic...
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