''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
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of paintings by Raphael, His work is admired for its cl ...
. 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 the 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 ...
Notes
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Notes on female paintings by Raphael*
its Raphael
1516 paintings
Portraits by Raphael
Paintings in the Galleria Palatina
16th-century portraits
Oil on canvas paintings
Portraits of women
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