''La velata'', or ''La donna velata'' ("The woman with the veil"), is a well known
portrait by the
Italian Renaissance painter
Raffaello Sanzio, more commonly known as, Raphael Raffaello, Raffaele or Raffaellino is an Italian given name. It usually refers to Raphael (a.k.a. Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino), an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
Raffaello may also refer to:
* Raffaello (confection), a confe ...
. The subject of the painting appears in another portrait, ''
La Fornarina
The ''Portrait of a Young Woman'' (also known as ''La fornarina'') is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael, made between 1518 and 1519. It is in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini, Rome.
It is proba ...
'', and is traditionally identified as the ''fornarina'' (bakeress)
Margherita Luti, Raphael's Roman mistress.
As usual with Raphael, the subject's clothing is chosen and painted with close attention; here it is strikingly opulent.
See also
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List of paintings by Raphael
The following is a list of paintings by Italian Renaissance painter Raphael. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. He was enormously prolific, despite his early death at ...
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Notes on female paintings by Raphael*
1516 paintings
Portraits by Raphael
Paintings in the collection of the Galleria Palatina its Raphael
16th-century portraits
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