A MASTERPIECE, IN THE HISTORY OF PAINTING (14)

TITLE PAINTING:

” La velata“ (The veiled)

Woman with a veil

 DATED:

1516

MEDIUM:

Oil on canvas

SIZE:

82 × 61 cm (32.2 × 24 in)

CURRENT LOCATION:

Palazzo Pitti

(Huge Renaissance-style palace located in Florence, Italy, built between 1458 – 1464. It was originally the residence of Luca Pitti, an ambitious Florentine banker.[Wikipedia])

USER (PHOTO):

Pimbrils

Source photo:

commons.wikimedia.org

Artist:

Raffaello Sanzio

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino; March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking.

 [Wikipedia]

             Photo: “Self-portrait with a friend”. Source: commons.wikimedia.org