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La velata

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La velata is an oil on canvas portrait painted by Raphael around 1516, held in the Palatine Gallery of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. It shows a woman traditionally identified as Margherita Luti, a baker daughter said to have been Raphael mistress in Rome, who also appears to be the sitter in Raphael later painting La Fornarina. The portrait is admired for its opulent, richly detailed rendering of the sitter clothing, a hallmark of Raphael portraiture in this period of his career. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Partially Attested
Year Created
1516 1
The infobox dates the painting c. 1516, an approximate date.
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Palatine Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, Florence 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
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In Form

Painting, Art Forms
Source La velata (Wikipedia)

In Genre

Painting, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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1. La velata (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, Year
    c. 1516
  • Infobox, Medium
    Oil on canvas
  • Infobox, Location
    Palatine Gallery
  • Genre reference
    La velata is an oil on canvas portrait painted by Raphael around 1516, held in the Palatine Gallery of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    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 F
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