La velata
Raphael · c. 1513
The story
La velata, or La donna velata, is a well known portrait by the Italian Renaissance 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, Raphael's Roman mistress.
- Artist
- Raphael
- Date
- c. 1513
- Collection
- Palatine Gallery, Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy
- Movement
- High Renaissance
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 82 × 61 cm
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