| La velata | |
| Artist: | Raphael |
| Year: | c. 1516 |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 82 |
| Width Metric: | 60.5 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| City: | Florence |
| Museum: | Palatine Gallery, Palazzo Pitti |
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. 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.
As usual with Raphael, the subject's clothing is chosen and painted with close attention; here it is strikingly opulent.
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