''La velata'', or ''La donna velata'' ("The woman with the veil"), is a well known
portrait
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by the
Italian
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Renaissance
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painter
Raffaello Sanzio, more commonly known as, Raphael. The subject of the painting appears in another portrait, ''
La Fornarina'', and is traditionally identified as the ''fornarina'' (bakeress)
Margherita Luti
Margarita Luti (also Margherita Luti or ''La Fornarina'', "the baker's daughter") was the Mistress (lover), mistress and Model (art), model of Raphael. The story of their love has become "the Archetype, archetypal artist–model relationship of ...
, 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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References
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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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