Casa della Fornarina

Simone-Clio schrieb:

Soweit ich weiss, befindet sich das Haus der Fornarina an der Via di Santa Dorotea 20. Hier ein Streetview-Blick darauf. Zu erkennen ist es an der ionischen Säule der Fassade. Bei dem gesuchten Fenster sollte es sich ich um dieses handeln. Um die Ecke befindet sich das Ristorante Romolo. Siehe: Ristorante Romolo a Roma Trastevere, Raffaello e la Fornarina vor allem Raffaello e la Fornarina | Romolo a Trastevere, Roma

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dentaria schrieb:

Wie Simone bin auch ich der Meinung, dass dies das Haus der Fornarina ist.
Allerdings weiß ich nicht mehr, woher ich diese Info habe.

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As regards the second and truest love of Raphael, the accounts given by his early biographers, rest more on tradition than on facts. We only know the girl to have been of humble birth, most likely the daughter of a baker living in the Trastevere, somewhere between the churches of Santa Dorotea and Santa Cecilia. Attached to her dwelling was a small kitchen-garden, enclosed by a wall so low that any passer-by could catch a glimpse of the inside by raising himself slightly on tiptoe. Here the baker's daughter often came, perhaps in search of herbs and flowers, perhaps to spread the household linen in the sun; and here, on the other side of the wall, many young artists, attracted by the fame of her beauty, would halt on their way home and endeavor to obtain speech with her. It now seems certain that the Fornarina's name was Margherita; yet the identification rests on the authority of one document only (...)

Roman tradition points out as the home of the girl a modest house near the corner of the Via di Santa Dorotea and the Porta Settimiana, the ground floor of which is actually occupied hy a bakery called " il Forno della Fornarina;" but this is all the evidence we can produce in favor of the tradition. No document has yet been found to prove the veracity of the charming legend, and the Santa Dorotea house, however dear it may have become to artists and poets has no claim whatever to the consideration of the conscientious biographer. The archives of the Peretti family, to whom this and the adjoining lands belonged at the end of the sixteenth century, contain no mention of her name. They show, in fact, that the whole space between the church and the villa of Agostino Chigi (La Farnesina) was but a stretch of vegetable gardens. Two other houses are pointed out by tradition as having been inhabited by the young woman. One stands among low surroundings in the Vicolo del Merangolo, near the church of Sant'Egidio in Trastevere; the other one is the Palazzetto Sassi in the region of Parione, of which I have given a description and an illustration in chapter iii (p. 126). The house in the Vicolo del Merangolo may or may not have been erected by the master to keep his beloved one near him, while engaged in painting the loggia of Chigi's villa; but the impious hand of an eighteenth century restorer has obliterated every vestige of its former aspect, so that we must leave the question unsolved. As regards the Sassi palace, in the Via del Governo Vecchio, n. 48, it would be vain for us to attempt any identification of its various parts, as described in the sixteenth century documents, because it has likewise undergone a transformation at the hands of the architect Mercandetti. The beautiful court and loggia, represented on page 127, have been demolished; their statues, first removed to the Farnese palace, are now in Naples; and I have not been able to discover what fate has befallen the mosaic of the floor of the court, which represented a well-stocked fish-pond. On the left side of the vestibule of this palace a modern reproduction of a much older tablet is set into the wall, on which these words are engraved: Tradition says that the one who became so dear to Raphael, and whom he raised to fame, lived in this house."
The tradition is not absolutely groundless. We can produce in its support the evidence of the census taken by order of Leo X in 1518, in which one of the houses pertaining to the head of the Sassi family, Messer Benedetto, is said to be occupied by a baker from Siena named Francesco. This house, facing the Via di Parione, was separated from the palace by a narrow space, so that, if Francesco was the father of the Fornarina, the tablet practically would speak the truth, the more so if we assume it to have been removed to its present location when the house of the baker was made a part of the new building.
These, then, are the abodes which tradition assigns to the Fornarina, as if the fair inspirer had followed Raphael in his artistic rounds, changing residence so as to be near the places in which, during the nine years of their liaison, the artist lavished the treasures of his genius. In 1511 he was working in Agostino Chigi's villa, and the legend shows us the beautiful model living in the Via di Santa Dorotea; again, he undertakes the painting of the Transfiguration in the palace now marked n. 3 in the Piazza di Sant' Apollonia, and the girl is found to be living in the Vicolo del Merangolo close by; lastly, he begins the Stanze and the Loggie, and the model watches his coming and going on the Via Papale — the Pope's highway — from the windows of the Sassi house. During these nine years Raphael repaid the love of Margherita with immortality.

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