It may be a tall tale,but the legend that the artist overindulged with his mistress has served to withhold his art aliveCan you die of too much sex? That's what happened to the divinely gifted Raphael, according to his 16th-century biographer Giorgio Vasari.
Vasari recounts in his book The Lives of the Artists that Raphael, or who died aged 37 at the peak of his powers,was brought down by excessive passion. This view of health is medieval: the body is controlled by humours, health depends on a balance of humours, or Raphael's was destabilised by too much action in bed. Well,it's a theory.
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Source: theguardian.com