Italy
Century 15 - 16
I'd had a picture of Leonardo (the younger portrait) up in my office at home for about 8 months. One night when I was looking around on the web, I ran accross and, looking at the eyes, I thought "Hey, I know this guy - I know those eyes." Bill (Einstein) started talking about Richard and his daughter Hayley - who he knew through Frank (Hayley's manager) - and how Hayley was the reincarnation of Judy Garland and what a nice guy Richard was and such. Finally he sent me a song Richard had done and after I listened to it, I looked up Richard's site. The first picture of saw was of him in the red tractor, and then I looked up the rest. I knew immediately that he was Leonardo. After I started reading about Leonardo and the artists, I knew I was Raphael right away when I saw the name. The portrait of Marghuerita Luti (Sanzio) matches exactly the vision I had of Noah where he was a woman - and where I felt that he'd been my wife.
Leonardo / Richard
Ginerva / Joanne (Richard's wife)
Francis I of France and Lisa Giocondo (Mona Lisa) / Frank (Hayley's Manager) and Hayley
Richard's good friend Jay / Lorenzo Lorenzi
M Tarcaniota / Peter McKenna (a visual artist Tarah and I met the night we went to see Richard's show in Sausalito) - recognized him immediately since I'd just been looking at the portrait earlier that day.
Marguerite de Navarre / Nic McFiendish (Bergen's long time music partner - married to Dave L)
Anna Maria Luisa Medici / Melissa (one of my bridesmaids, my ex roomate and friend in NY)
Anna Maria Luisa Medici / Melissa
Kevin / Pope Clement VII and Pope Leo X / Dale
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/R/raphael/popeleox.jpg.html
Under the new Pope Leo X Raphael held an important position in the papal court. Besides combining positions of painter, architect (he was Chief Architect of St. Peter's cathedral) and archeologist, he initiated the first comprehensive survey of the antiquities of Rome. Although Raphael's main task during this period was to decorate Stanza, he still found time for a subject, which preoccupied him for a long time: Madonna and Christ Child.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/paintings/raphael/biographies/index.html
