It is said that an artist and a madman are only one step away, and unfortunately Juana Romani took this step, she was sent to a mental hospital and never came out again.
Born in 1867 in Veleteri, Italy, Juana Romani lived with her mother and stepfather as a child, and when she was 10 years old, her stepfather, an engineer, was going to work in France.
Juana's family was not well-off, she worked as a model in several art schools before she was a teenager, and Paris at that time gathered many painters from all over the world, and there was a great demand for models.
At the age of 19, after several years of work experience, Juana became a model for the master painter Jean Jacques Henna, and after a few years of exposure to painting, Juana also became interested in painting, and she chose historical subjects, so she studied under the painter Ferdinand Lloibet.
There are many female painters who started as models, such as the Impressionist goddess Morisot, and Valadon, the relationship between models and painters is very delicate, and after a long time, there may be emotional exchanges, and models also begin to learn to paint because they fall in love with painters.
Juana's historical subjects are not grand historical stories, but rather portraits of young women in period costumes. Her personality and talent caused quite a stir at the time, after all, female painters were rare in Paris.
The fabric of the Renaissance, as well as the style of clothing, are delicate and noble in Juana's work, and her transformation of the characters in her paintings into fairies in mythological tales is very individual, and often appears in exhibitions in Paris.
In 1901, at the age of 34, Juana was already a successful painter, and it can be said that he had gained both fame and fortune. Although she had been away from Italy for many years, she also donated a sum to an art school in her hometown, which a few years later was named after her.
However, after a few years, Juana's mental state was in trouble, she often hallucinated, her personality became more and more paranoid, and soon her mother died and her friend Henner left. Juana became seriously ill and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where she spent about another 20 years, and there is no record of exactly when she died.