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 FORNASO as a Rapliael by R. Morghen and others. Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 357 ; v. 507 ; C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 319 ; Passavant ; Kugler (Eastlakc), ii. 4G5 ; Rosiui, iv. 241 ; Burckhardt, 000, 722. By Itaphai'l, 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 gar- ment over her knees. On a bracelet on her left arm is inscribed Raphael Urbinas. Com- monly called Raphael's Mistress ; name For- narina (bakeress), given about middle of last century. Many copies. Painted about 1501) ; in 15!)5 was in the Casa Sanla Fiora, Rome ; acquired about 1042 by Barbcrini family. Engraved by Cunego, Desnoyers, Godefroy, Anbert. Vasari, cd. Mil., iv. 355 ; Runiohr, Ital. Forsch., iii. ll:i; Passavant, ii. !)!) ; Milntx, 387, 0(i ; Gruyer, Portraits do la Fornarina ; Archivio della Societa Romana di Storia Patria, ii. (1878) 40; iii. (18711) 234 ; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 405 ; Springer, 251, 5(l!t. FORNASO, IL. See <'i, ;;<>, i,,. FORSTER, EHNST JOACHIM, born at Miinchengosserstadt, near Altenburg, April 8, 1800, died in Mu- nich, April 2!, 1SH5. History and portrait painter and art writ- er, pupil in Berlin of K. /immermann and W. Sehadow, studied then in Dres- den, 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 8. Antonio, Padua. Lives in Munich. Works : Hellas Liberated ; Giotto and Ciui- abue ; Portraits of Duke and Duchess of Altenburg and Children. Frescos : The- ology (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 (irazien ( 1833), Royal Palace, Munich. Kunst-Chro- nik, xx. 003 ; Meyer, Conv. Lex., vi. 1148. FORHTERLJNG, O1TO, born in Berlin, June 18, 1843. Genre and landscape paint- er, pupil of Berlin Academy and of Julius Schrador, settled in 18(17 at Klein /schaeh- witz, near Dresden, whence lie visited Ger- many, Austria, and Italy. Works : Morning Dew; Nymph of (he Spring; Woodland Tale ; Snow-Drop ; Water-Sprite in Grotto ; Fight, between Centaurs and Tigers ; Judas in the Storm during the Crucifixion (1885). Miiller, 180. FORT, JEAN ANTOINE SIMKON, also called Simeon-Fort, born at Valence (Drome), Aug. 28, 171)3, died in Paris, Dec. 24, 1801. Landscape painter in water-colour, pupil of C. Bruno. Was employed with Morel and Puissant to continue Bagetti's water-colours in Versailles. Medals: 2d class, 1831 ; 1st class, 1830; L of Honour, 1812. Works: Study near Marly ; Falls of the Doubs ; Mill of Dugny ; Convent of the Virgin del Sasso; Town and Palace of St. (.'loud (Conite I'o/./o di J5orgo) ; Wolf's Gorge ; Bottoms of Uo- chat ; Slopes of Bellevue ; Banks of the Mouse; Manufactory in Dauphine; Banks of Lake Maggiore ; Chateau d'Ku ; views in Africa; Oaks of the Doubs ; Nimplon Road ; Maritime Alps ; Hollow Road, Valley of the Meudon ; Smugglers ; Young Woman of Nivernois, Portrait of a Child (1824 to 1853). Larousse. FORTIN, CHARLES, bom in Paris, Juno 12, 1815, died there, Oct. Ii), 1805. Land- scape and genre painter, pupil of Beaume and Camille Roqueplan ; painted chiefly subjects of peasant life in Brittany. Medals : 1st class, 184'J, 1857, 1851), and 1801 ; L 78