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. See also List of paintings by Raphael Notes References External links Notes on female paintings by Raphael 1516 paintings Portraits by Raphael Paintings in the collection of the Galleria Palatina its Raphael 16th-century portraits