La velata, or La donna velata ("The woman with the
veil"), is one of the most famous portraits by the Italian Renaissance painter
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.
It doesn’t take much in my mind to associate two famous
paintings by Raphael with my b+w portrait of Kimberly Holcomb.
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| La donna velata |
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| La fornarina |