to hip. A woman, lightly clad, her hair looped with a silken cord
and falling in waves to the bosom, strives with one hand to hold the
muslin falling from her shoulders while presenting roses, jessamines,
and violets with the other to some unseen person. Painted about 1520.
Once owned by Don Alfonzo Lopez, who also owned the Ariosto of Cobham
Hall; first exhibited in Florence in 1793, when taken from the Duke’s
Guardaroba.--C. & C., Titian, i. 270; Lavice, 53.
FLORA, TRIUMPH OF, Nicolas _Poussin_, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 5 ft.
5 in. × 7 ft. 11 in. At right, Flora, seated upon a chariot, drawn
by two loves or zephyrs, and preceded by women and men singing and
dancing, is accompanied by nymphs, youths, and loves bearing flowers;
two loves, flying, are about to crown her; a warrior, standing,
offers flowers in a buckler. Painted about 1630 for Cardinal Omodei,
whence passed to collection of Louis XIV. Engraved by E. Fessard
(1770), Audran, Marie Horthemels.--Filhol, iii. Pl. 199; Villot, Cat.
Louvre.
FLORE. See _Fiore_.
FLORENTIA, ANDREA DA. See _Andrea_.
FLORENTINE POET, Alexandre _Cabanel_, J. H. Warren, Hoosic Falls,
N. Y. A young poet reading one of his compositions to youthful
listeners, seated on a marble bench in a garden. Salon, 1861.
Engraved by A. Huot. Replica, Israel Corse, New York.
FLORIGERIO, SEBASTIANO, of Udine, born about beginning of 16th
century, died after 1543. Venetian school; pupil and son-in-law of
Pellegrino. In 1525 he painted an altarpiece for S. M. di Villanuova
near San Daniele, and later the Conception, now in Venice Academy.
The St. George and the Dragon in S. Giorgio of Udine was ordered in
1529. He afterwards painted in Padua until 1533. In 1539 he killed
a man in a quarrel at Udine and fled to Cividale, where he remained
until 1543, when he returned to Udine.--C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 300;
Vasari, ix. 30; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 603.
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FLORIS, FRANS (Frans de Vriendt), born in Antwerp about 1517–18,
died there, Oct. 1, 1570. Flemish school; history and portrait
painter, son and pupil of Cornelis de V., a stone-cutter, then at
Liège pupil of Lambert Lombard; also studied in Italy under influence
of Michelangelo. In 1540 admitted into the guild at Antwerp, where
he opened a school, frequented by many scholars, among whom were
several afterwards great masters. Led a very wild life, which
prevented his attaining the fame and fortune that his great talent
and the patronage of his friends offered him. His sons, Jean Baptiste
and Frans, were both painters. Works: Fall of the Angels (1554),
Adoration of the Shepherds, St. Luke painting the Virgin, Antwerp
Museum; Nine Muses, Christ and Little Children, Water-Wedding at
Middelburg, Amsterdam Museum; Last Judgment (1566), Adoration of the
Magi (finished 1571 by Hieronymus Francken), Brussels Museum; Falcon
Hunter (1558), Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan, Venus and Cupid,
Brunswick Museum; Taking of Christ, Cassel Gallery; Cain and Abel,
Copenhagen Gallery; Venus and Mars (1547), Lot and his Daughters,
Berlin Museum; Figure of a Woman, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Adam and
Eve under the Tree, Adam and Eve driven from Paradise, Holy Family,
Vienna Museum; Deluge, portraits (2), Madrid Museum.--Ch. Blanc,
École flamande; Biog. nat. de Belgique, vii. 120; Cat. du Musée
d’Anvers (1874), 139; Dohme, 1ii.; Fétis, Cat. du Mus. royal, 317;
Michiels, v. 292; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 17; Rooses (Reber), 93; Van
den Branden, 173.
FLORIZEL AND PERDITA, Charles R. _Leslie_, South Kensington Museum;
canvas, H. 1 ft. 9 in. × 2 ft. 5 in. Scene from Winter’s Tale, Act
IV., Scene 3. Perdita, standing, presenting flowers to Polyxenes
and Camillo, seated at right in shepherd’s cottage; behind her is
Florizel, and at her side, at left, Dorcas, a true shepherdess. Royal
Academy, 1837. Engraved by L. Stocks.--Art Journal (1867), 4.
FLOWER GIRL, _Murillo_, Dulwich Gallery; canvas, H. 3 ft. 11 in. × 3
ft. 2 in.; has been enlarged, original size 3 ft. 5⅝ × 2 ft. 9⅝. In
white turban, yellow robe, white sleeves, seated on a stone bench,
holding with both hands the end of a brown embroidered scarf which
falls from her left shoulder, and smilingly offering to the spectator
the four roses it contains; on left a pilaster; at right a landscape
with cloudy sky. Countess de Verrue sale, 1737; Blondel de Gagny
sale, Paris (1776), 12,000 liv.; Calonne sale, London (1795), £672,
to Mr. Desenfans, whose heir, Sir Francis Bourgeois, bequeathed it to
Dulwich College. Old copy in Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Vienna.
Engraved by J. H. Robinson, P. Lightfoot, S. C. Hall, R. Graves, A.
H. Payne, R. Cockburn, C. Cousen.--Curtis, 281; Art Journal, 1877;
Art Union, 1841; Scott, Murillo; Waagen, ii. 346; Ch. Blanc, Murillo,
16; Jameson, Public Galleries, 483; Richter, Dulwich Cat., 99.
FLOWER MARKET, Firmin _Girard_, T. R. Butler, New York. Scene on the
quay where the flower-market of Paris is held, with groups buying
and selling; in background, the Seine and architecture. Salon, 1876.
Etched by Gustave Greux.--L’Art (1876), ii. 300; iii. 240.
FLÜGGEN, GISBERT, born in Cologne, Feb. 9, 1811, died in Munich,
Sept. 3, 1859. Genre painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy. In 1835
he settled in Munich. Has been called the German Wilkie on account
of the similarity in subject and character of his works to those
of the Scotch master. Works: Servants Surprised (1839), Hermitage,
St. Petersburg; Chess Players, Interrupted Marriage Contract
(1840); Unlucky Player (1841), Mentz Museum; Deciding the Lawsuit
(1847); Betrothal, Tasting Wine, Morning Kiss, Opening of Will,
Money Changers (1850); Seizure for Debt at Young Musician’s (1854);
Disappointed Legacy Hunters (1848), Hanover Gallery; Speculators;
Last Moments of King Frederic Augustus of Saxony; Anteroom of a
Prince (1859), New Pinakothek, Munich.--Allgem. d. Biogr., vii. 140;
Brockhaus, iv. 982.
FLÜGGEN, JOSEF, born in Munich, April 3, 1842. History and portrait
painter, son of Gisbert, pupil of Munich Academy and of Piloty,
went in 1866 to Paris, London, Brussels, and Antwerp, where he
was influenced by Leys. Now professor in Munich Academy. Works:
Elizabeth of Thuringia (1867); The Hostess’ Daughter (1869); Family
Happiness; On Coast of Genoa; Pouting Love-Couple; Milton dictating
Paradise Lost; Landgravine Margaret taking Leave of her Children;
Regina Imhof (1877); Baptism of Emperor Maximilian I. (1879); First
Booty (1881); Last Jewel (1884); King Karl’s Sea-trip (1885), Royal
Palace, Bucharest.--Brockhaus, vi. 929; Illustr. Zeitg. (1882), i.
9; N. illustr. Zeitg. (1880), ii. 503; Land und Meer (1870), i. 212;
Zeitschr. f. b. K., xix. 135.
FOGOLINO, MARCELLO, of Vicenza, first half of 16th century. Venetian
school; a native of the district of Friuli, he was apprenticed at
Vicenza, and spent some of his later years in San Vito; painted
also in Pordenone and in Trent. His early work is in the manner of
Verlas and Speranza, but his later pictures show the influence of
Raphaelesque models. Among the latter are the Virgin crowned by
Angels in the Santissima Trinità, Trent, and the Madonna and Saints
in the church of Bovo, near Trent.--C. & C., N. Italy, i. 443.
FOHR, DANIEL, born at Heidelberg, May 13, 1801, died at Baden-Baden,
June 25, 1862. Landscape painter, brother of Karl Ph. F.,
self-taught, came in 1829 to Munich, where he rapidly gained
reputation. Works: Wood Landscape with Mazeppa, View of Königsee
(1836); The Steinberg near Berchtesgarten (1837), Four Seasons or
Four Epochs of German History, Carlsruhe Gallery.
FOHR, KARL PHILIPP, born at Heidelberg, Nov. 26, 1795, died in Rome,
June 29, 1818. Landscape painter, pupil of Munich Academy. Influenced
by Josef Anton Koch at Rome, where he was drowned while bathing in
the Tiber. Works: In Carlsruhe and Darmstadt Museums, and Städel
Gallery, Frankfort.--Allgem. d. Biogr., vii. 147; Dieffenbach, Leben
des Malers K. F. (Darmstadt, 1823).
FOLTZ, PHILIPP, born at Bingen, May 11, 1805, died in Munich, August
5, 1877. History and genre painter, pupil of Düsseldorf and Munich
Academies under Cornelius, whom he assisted in the decoration of the
Glyptothek. After painting some frescos in the new Royal Palace,
he went to Rome in 1835, and on his return became professor at the
Munich Academy in 1839, and director of the Central Gallery in 1855.
Works: Suliote Woman keeping Watch for her Father, Huntsman on
Rocky Cliff, Fishermaiden on Strand, Fisherman’s Family expecting
Father, Fisherwoman on Achen Lake, Two Chamois Hunters, Hunter and
Shepherdess, Knight and his Sweetheart, Greek Women on Battlefield
all in (1826–35); Two Madonnas, Holy Family, The Diver, The Princess,
Count of Hapsburg (1835–38); Minstrel’s Curse (1838), Cologne Museum;
Scene on the Isar near Munich, Darmstadt Museum; Madonna (1839);
Emperor Sigismund, Römersaal, Frankfort; Frederic Barbarossa kneeling
before Henry the Lion (1852); Age of Pericles, Maximilianeum, Munich;
Italian Mother with Children by the Sea, Pilgrimage in the Mountains,
Peasant Woman and Child; Scene from Defence of Tyrol, Brera Gallery,
Milan; two great Hunting Scenes; Rhine Legends, Schönborn Palace,
Munich; Götz von Berlichingen and the Monk, Vienna Museum; King
Louis I. and Family looking at Painting, Madonna, Frauenlob.
Frescos: Foundation of Academy of Science, and four Allegorical
Figures, Arcades, royal garden, Munich; twenty-three scenes from
Schiller’s and nineteen from Bürger’s Ballads, Royal Palace,
Munich; Times of Day, Gods of Greece instructing Man, Schönborn
Palace, Munich.--Allgem. d. Biogr., vii. 150; Brockhaus, vi. 943;
Kunst-Chronik, xii. 771; Illustr. Zeitg. (1881), i. 333.
FONTAINE, EDMÉ ADOLPHE, born at Noisy-le-Grand (Seine-et-Oise),
May 8, 1814. Portrait, genre, and landscape painter, pupil of Léon
Cogniet. Medal, 3d class, 1852. Works: Ibrahim Pasha at the Military
School of Saint Cyr (1847–85); Supreme Court at Versailles (1850–55);
Visit of Napoleon III. to School of Saint-Cyr (1853); The Letter
(1857); Attack of Selinghinsk Earthwork, February 23, 1855 (1859);
Mass at Pont l’Abbé, Studio Interior (1861); Cæsar and his Fortune
(1863); Bay of Audierne, Finistère, Villa of Quintilian on the Via
Appia (1875); Studio Interior (1878).--Bellier de la Chavignerie, i.
561.
FONTAINEBLEAU, FOREST OF, Narciso _Diaz_ de la Peña, T. W. Walters,
Baltimore; canvas, H. 2 ft. 6 in. × 2 ft. 1 in.; dated 1871. Autumn
scene. Diaz painted many views of the Forest of Fontainebleau, some
of which are in the following collections: W. H. Vanderbilt, New
York; Samuel Hawk, ib.; M. Graham, ib.; J. W. Drexel, ib.; J. T.
Martin, Brooklyn; R. C. Taft, Providence; H. P. Kidder, Boston; Mrs.
W. P. Wilstach, Philadelphia.
By Theodore _Rousseau_, Louvre; canvas, H. 4 ft. 7 in. × 6 ft. 5 in.;
signed. Sunset scene on the border of the forest. Salon of 1855;
formerly in Luxembourg. Rousseau spent many years in the Forest of
Fontainebleau, which supplied him with numerous subjects.
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FONTANA, LAVINIA, born in Bologna, Aug. 26, 1552, died in Rome in
1614. Bolognese school; daughter and pupil of Prospero Fontana;
married Paolo Zappi, son of a rich merchant of Imola, who aspired
to be a painter, but without success. Lavinia went to Rome about
1592, and won considerable reputation as a portrait painter. She
also executed several altarpieces like her father’s in colour, but
inferior in design and execution. Works at Bologna: Virgin and
Saints, S. Giacomo Maggiore; do., La Madonna del Baracano; Miracle
of Loaves and Fishes, Chiesa dei Mendicanti; Crucifixion, S.
Lucia; Birth of Virgin, S. Trinità; Madonna, Ascension, Pieve di
Cento.--Malvasia, i. 173; Lanzi, iii. 42; Ch. Blanc, École bolonaise;
Gualandi, Guida, 138, 140, 166.
FONTANA, PROSPERO, born in Bologna in 1512, died in Rome in 1597.
Bolognese school, pupil of Innocenzo da Imola; went to France to
aid Primaticcio at Fontainebleau, but was taken ill and had to
return. Painted chiefly in Bologna and in Rome. He was devoted to
pleasure, and his many (chiefly historical) works are executed
with little care. His best pictures are his portraits. Among
his works are: Decorations in Vigna di Papa Giulio near Rome;
Altarpiece, S. Salvatore, Bologna; Entombment, Bologna Gallery;
Charity of S. Alexis, S. Giacomo Maggiore, Bologna; Holy Family,
Dresden Gallery; Annunciation, Brera, Milan; Visitation, Estense
Gallery, Modena.--Malvasia, i. 173; Lanzi, iii. 42; Ch. Blanc, École
bolonaise; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., ix. 95; xii. 111; xiii. 5, 183.
FONTANA, ROBERTO, born in Milan in 1844. Genre painter, pupil of
Milan Academy. Medal, Milan, 1876. Works: Scene in Robert le Diable;
Wooing; Æsop relating his Fables (1876).
FONTENAY, ALEXIS DALIGÉ DE, born in Paris, April 29, 1813. Landscape
painter, pupil of Watelet and Hersent. Has won a good reputation
as a faithful delineator of nature. Medals: 3d class, 1841; 2d
class, 1844, 1861, and 1863. Works: View on the Grimsel Road (1841);
View on Road to the Maladetta, Pyrenees (1843), Marseilles Museum;
Environs of Luz (1844); Great Sulphur Mine (1845); Fort Royal (1847);
Bernese Oberland (1848); Road from Bastia to Ajaccio (1852); Isle
of Elba (1852), Montauban Museum; Farm and Castle (1855), Nantes
Museum; Valley of Lauterbrunnen (1857), Montpellier Museum; Gulf
of Ajaccio (1859), Strassburg Museum; Wetterhorn and Grindelwald
(1861); Castle of Unspunnen (1863), Saint-Quentin Museum; View in
Bernese Oberland, Gallery at Monaye (1863); View near Unterseen,
Castle of Gaillard (1864), Lisieux Museum; Seine near Ruins of the
Castle of Tancarville, Top of the Sulphur Mine in Guadaloupe (1865);
Village of Unterseen, Church of St. Bernard de Comminges (1866);
Village of Vezillon, High Tide between Havre and Honfleur (1868),
Laval Museum; Seine between Rouen and Havre (1869); View in Valley
of the Touque (1870); Road from Meyringen to Goutan (1872); Farm
near Rouen (1874); Seine at Les Andelys (1875); Ruins of Castle in
Valley of Lauterbrunnen (1876); Farm on Heights of Avranches (1877);
Villiers (1878); Farm near Pontorson, Pic du Midi near Pau (1879);
Coast of Honfleur, Farm in Normandy (1880); Farm in Picardy, View
near Villiers-sur-Mer (1882); Squall on the Coast of Normandy, Cliffs
at Puy (1883); Cliffs near Château of Dieppe (1884); Last Judgment,
Entrance to Dieppe (1885).
FONVILLE, HORACE, born at Lyons in 1832. Landscape painter, pupil
of his father and of Appian. Works: Château de la Pape near Lyons
(1833); View of Lyons (1840); Landscape in the Haut-Bugey (1864);
At Rossillon, Ain (1870); Road in Mountains of Haut-Bugey (1874),
Luxembourg Museum; Ain River at Neuville (1876); Souvenir of
Virieux-le-Grand (1877); Landscape in Bugey (1879).
FOPPA, VINCENZO, the elder, born at Foppa, province of Pavia, died in
Brescia in 1492. Lombard school; a disciple probably of Squarcione,
but nothing known of him before his engagement in Milan in 1456, when
he called himself a citizen of Brescia. In 1461 he was in Pavia,
where he painted in 1462 frescos in the Carmine, and in 1465 a chapel
in the Certosa. At a later date he worked in Savona and in Brescia.
His earlier pictures show the prominent characteristics of the
Paduan school, but in the course of years he shook off Mantegnesque
peculiarities and gained the mastery which comes from long practice.
Among his best extant works are the St. Sebastian, Brera, Milan, and
the altarpiece in six panels in S. M. di Castello, Savona, dated
1489. Other examples are: Adoration of the Magi, National Gallery,
London, ascribed to Bartolommeo Suardi, and frescos in the Carmine,
Brescia, also St. Jerome, Crucifixion, Bergamo Gallery.--C. & C.,
N. Italy, ii. 2; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iii. 285; vi. 84; Siret, 323;
Calvi, Notizie, etc., 55; Ch. Blanc, École milanaise; Burckhardt,
607; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 487.
FOPPA, VINCENZO, the younger, of Brescia, 16th century. Lombard
school; probably son and pupil of above, in his frescos in S. Giulia,
S. Salvatore, and S. M. in Solario, Brescia. In his later works, in
S. M. delle Grazie and S. Nazzaro e Celso, Brescia, he shows himself
a follower of Moretto and Romanino.--C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 432;
Burckhardt, 610.
FORABOSCO. See _Ferabosco_.
FORBES, EDWIN, born in New York in 1839. Landscape and genre painter,
pupil of A. F. Tait in 1859. During the American civil war he
acted as special artist for Frank Leslie’s illustrated paper, and
subsequently painted his Lull in the Fight. His Life Studies of the
Great Army, etchings on copper, were presented to the United States
Government by General Sherman, and are preserved in the War Office at
Washington. In 1877 he was elected an honorary member of the London
Etching Club. Studio in Brooklyn. Works: Early Morning in an Orange
County Pasture (1879); On the Skirmish Line, Stormy March, Roughing,
On the Meadows (1880); Evening in the Sheep Pasture (1881).
FORBIN, LOUIS NICOLAS PHILIPPE AUGUSTE, Comte de, born at Château
de la Roque d’Anthéron (Bouches-du-Rhône), Aug. 19, 1777, died in
Paris, Feb. 23, 1841. Landscape and interior painter, pupil in Lyons
of Boissieu and in Paris of David; took part in the several campaigns
between 1795 and 1809, when he resigned, and in Rome devoted himself
to art; returned to Paris in 1814, and after the restoration was
made member of the Institute and director of the royal museums. He
reorganized the Louvre, and founded the Luxembourg Museum. In 1817–18
he visited Syria, Greece, and Egypt, and in 1819 published a splendid
work, “Voyage dans le Levant.” The figures in his pictures were
supplied by Granet. Chamberlain; L. of Honour, 1809; Officer, 1817;
Commander, 1822; Order of St. Michael; member of many Academies.
Works: Interior of Ancient Monument (1800); Death of Pliny at
Eruption of Vesuvius (1806); Nun in Prison of Inquisition (1817);
Death of King Andrew of Hungary, Inez de Castro (1819); Interior
of Monastery (1824); Procession of the League (1831); Vestibule of
Monastery (1830), Chapel in Coliseum (1834), with Granet, Louvre;
Moor accused of aiding Flight of a Nun.--Larousse, viii. 586; Villot,
Cat. Louvre; Meyer, Gesch., 148.
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FOREST, JEAN BAPTISTE, born in Paris in 1636, died there, March 17,
1712. French school; landscape painter, son and pupil of Pierre
Forest, then in Rome pupil of Pietro Francesco Mola; having also
formed himself after Titian and Giorgione, he returned from Italy
after a sojourn of seven years, and was received into the Academy in
1674. Visited Italy a second time, commissioned by M. de Seignelay,
Minister of State, to buy pictures by old masters, of which he was a
great connoisseur. Some of his works are in the Museum at Tours, but
most of his pictures have become blackened from his use of perishable
pigments.--Ch. Blanc, École française, i.; D’Argenville, v. 185.
FORESTIER, HENRI JOSEPH, born in Santo Domingo in 1787, died in
Paris, Dec. 23, 1874. History and genre painter, pupil of Vincent and
David, then of École des Beaux Arts; won grand prix de Rome in 1813
and went to Rome; after his return also painted genre scenes. L. of
Honour, 1832. Works: Anacreon and Cupid; Ecce Homo (1819); Christ
healing a Young Man Possessed (1827), Louvre; Calling of St. Fronto
(1831), Ministry of Public Works; Good Samaritan (1835), Préfecture
de la Seine; Funeral of William the Conqueror (1855).--Larousse.
FORMANN, HELENA, _Rubens_, Blenheim Palace; canvas, H. 6 ft. 6 in. ×
4 ft. 6 in. Rubens’ second wife, full-length, in a black silk dress,
with white satin sleeves adorned with pearls, and a black velvet
cap, walking in the open air, followed by a page with his hat in his
hand. Engraved by Earlom. Other portraits of her by Rubens at Windsor
Castle, and in Dresden, Munich, Berlin (St. _Cecilia_), Vienna, The
Hague, Louvre, and Hermitage Galleries.--Waagen, Art Treasures, iii.
126; Smith, ii. 242.
FORNARINA, LA, Sebastian del _Piombo_, Blenheim, England; wood,
life-size. A beautiful woman sitting, turned to left, her head almost
facing the spectator; her hair, bound in a mass at the back of the
neck, set off by a striped cloth tied over the crown of the head; low
white dress showing neck; right hand supporting the fur collar of a
red velvet mantle, the left holding a basket of fruit and flowers.
Called also Dorothea. Attributed to Raphael; engraved as a Raphael by
Bernardi, T. Chambers, and others. Inferior replica in Casa Persico
Cittadella, Verona.--C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 320; Waagen, Treasures,
iii. 125.
[Illustration: La Fornarina, Sebastian del Piombo, Uffizi, Florence.]
By Sebastian del _Piombo_ (attributed to Raphael), Uffizi, Florence;
canvas, H. 2 ft. 2 in. × 1 ft. 10 in.; dated 1512. The bust of a
young and beautiful lady of rank, nearly full face, with a wreath
of gold leaves on her head; dress, a blue velvet bodice with muslin
chemisette, and a green velvet mantle with panther-skin collar. The
gold chain on her neck is by some restorer. In possession of the
Medici, Florence, since 1589. Kugler thinks it a portrait of Vittoria
Colonna; others, of the Improvisatrice Beatrice da Ferrara. Copy
attributed to Giulio Romano in Palazzo Corsini, Rome. Engraved as a
Raphael by R. Morghen and others.--Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 357; v. 567;
C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 319; Passavant; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 465;
Rosini, iv. 241; Burckhardt, 660, 722.
[Illustration: La Fornarina, Raphael, Palazzo Barberini, Rome.]
By _Raphael_, Palazzo Barberini, Rome; figure to the knees. A
half-nude woman, seated in a myrtle and laurel wood, with a striped
yellow cloth about her head and her hair bound with a circlet of gold
with leaves and flowers, garnished with precious stones; her right
hand holds light gauze against her breast, her left lies carelessly
on the red garment over her knees. On a bracelet on her left arm
is inscribed Raphael Urbinas. Commonly called Raphael’s Mistress;
name Fornarina (bakeress), given about middle of last century. Many
copies. Painted about 1509; in 1595 was in the Casa Santa Fiora,
Rome; acquired about 1642 by Barberini family. Engraved by Cunego,
Desnoyers, Godefroy, Aubert.--Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 355; Rumohr,
Ital. Forsch., iii. 113; Passavant, ii. 99; Müntz, 387, 606; Gruyer,
Portraits de la Fornarina; Archivio della Societa Romana di Storia
Patria, ii. (1878) 46; iii. (1879) 234; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 465;
Springer, 251, 509.
FORNASO, IL. See _Civerchio_.
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FÖRSTER, ERNST JOACHIM, born at Münchengosserstadt, near Altenburg,
April 8, 1800, died in Munich, April 29, 1885. History and portrait
painter and art writer, pupil in Berlin of K. Zimmermann and W.
Schadow, studied then in Dresden, and from 1832 in Munich under
Cornelius. In 1824–25 he painted frescos in the Hall of Bonn
University. He twice visited Italy, and in 1837–40 discovered and
restored Altichieri’s wall paintings in the Chapel of St. George in
S. Antonio, Padua. Lives in Munich. Works: Hellas Liberated; Giotto
and Cimabue; Portraits of Duke and Duchess of Altenburg and Children.
Frescos: Theology (1824–25), Aula, Bonn University; Liberation of
German Army through Otto von Wittelsbach, near Verona, Arcades, Royal
Garden, Munich; Scenes from Goethe’s Poems and Scenes from Wieland’s
Musarion and Grazien (1833), Royal Palace, Munich.--Kunst-Chronik,
xx. 603; Meyer, Conv. Lex., vi. 948.
FÖRSTERLING, OTTO, born in Berlin, June 18, 1843. Genre and landscape
painter, pupil of Berlin Academy and of Julius Schrader, settled in
1867 at Klein Zschachwitz, near Dresden, whence he visited Germany,
Austria, and Italy. Works: Morning Dew; Nymph of the Spring; Woodland
Tale; Snow-Drop; Water-Sprite in Grotto; Fight between Centaurs and
Tigers; Judas in the Storm during the Crucifixion (1885).--Müller,
180.