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June 18, 2005
ooooh, scandalous!!!!
from reuters, via yahoo news...
Painted pearl unlocks secret of Raphael's love
By Clara Ferreira-Marques
Fri Jun 17, 8:09 AM ET
MILAN (Reuters) - The tiny pearl brooch seems an innocuous detail in Raphael's enigmatic "Fornarina" portrait, but for one group of historians it unlocks a scandalous love affair kept secret for centuries.
read the rest of the article here.
so i was an art history minor in school. this is the kind of stuff that really kept me interested in the topic, along with all the architecture i got to study.
this is the whole painting. you can see more of the details talked about in the article.
Posted by musikchyck at June 18, 2005 11:03 AM
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