Abstract
Jealous Death. Notes on the Mythologizing of Raphael’s Erotic Life. Raphael’s genius knew no bounds but those of love. While working on the loggia of the Villa Farnesina, the painter was so distracted by thoughts of his mistress that his patron, Agostino Chigi, had to call her to his side. According to Vasari, the artist’s premature death was caused by amorous excess. These anecdotes, which have helped fashion the vision we have of the painter, are truly stereotypical motifs in the sense of E. Kris and O. Kurz. Incorporating traits from Pliny’s story of Appelles, these motifs have taken on the force of historiographical myths. In the 19th century the erotic content of these myths proved to have a great appeal for many writers and artists. A few art historians, on the other hand, such as J.-D. Passavant, tried, on the contrary, to impose a sublimated vision of the Raphaelian Eros.
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