Margarita Luti
（重定向自Fornarina）
![La donna velata (c. 1516); the pearl (Latin: margarita) adorning her hair may allude to the name of Raphael's mistress and model; her stray curl exemplifies the](/Images/godic/202501/14/La_donna_velata_v20352.jpg")
![La Fornarina](/Images/godic/202501/14/Fornarina0352.jpg")
Margarita Luti (also Margherita Luti or La Fornarina, "the baker's daughter") was the mistress and model of Raphael. The story of their love has become "the archetypal artist-model relationship of Western tradition", yet little is known of her life. Of her, Flaubert wrote, in his Dictionary of Received Ideas, "Fornarina. She was a beautiful woman. That is all you need to know."