Raphael was a painter of the Italian ‘High Renaissance’, considered one of the greatest and most popular artists of all time. Unlike Leonardo and Michelangelo, Raphael was to live a very short life, dying at the youthful age of 37 from illness and fever. But what makes his untimely death even more unusual is that he died on his birthday - April 6,1520. The Woman with the Veil, also known as La Donna Velata, was possibly the same woman who was portrayed in many of his Madonna images, and was believed to have been the painter's mistress.
Woman with a Veil
oil on canvas • 82 x 61 cm