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Currently, for safety, we're able to ship framed paintings only up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached, the framing option is automatically disabled.
However, if you are interested in stretching or framing a painting larger than 24x36 inches (60x90 cm), please contact one of our customer success associates or let us know in your order notes. We will send you a catalog of our large framing styles and pricing options.
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Raffaello Sanzio, also known as Raphael, was one of the most celebrated Renaissance painters of all time. Born in 1483 at Lucca, Italy, was a child of Giovanni Santi, who was able to allow his son to be the apprentice of Pietro Perugino, in the city of Umbria.
In his career, he became a great master painter and architect, absorbing ideas and being influenced by other great artists from the XVI century, like Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci. He was a person of extraordinary talent, admired for the ease of composition, the clarity of form, and the ideal of human greatness.
His journey can be divided into three phases: the first one, in his early years, while he was Perugino's apprentice after his mother died. The second phase, until 1508, where he enhanced his skill set by learning the artistic traditions of Florence, and the final and most magnificent stage in Rome, when Popes Julius II and Leo X commissioned him, while he painted the famous "Raphael Rooms" or "Stanze," in the Vatican.
La Velata, or La Donna Velata, is a perfect example of the madonnas made by Raphael. Made with astonishing details in the cloth and the usage of the sfumato technique developed by Leonardo Da Vinci, perfected later by Sanzio, present us with the painting of Margherita Luti, also known as The Fornarina. She was said to be a friend of Raphael, but that was not clear. He was engaged at the time with Maria Bibbiena, and some say that the painter's romantic life was too mysterious and prolific and that Margherita was his true love. Others say that the woman is painted with a veil because they were married.
Raphael used the same face for the Sistine Madonna and The Madonna of the Chair. On the painting The Fornarina, he used someone very similar to La Velata but wearing only a shroud over the lower half of her body, reinforcing the rumors about what Margherita was for him.
The woman with the veil is the meaning of the painting in English. In this fantastic piece, we can see the astounding talent that Raphael had. The painting shows us the perfect choice of colors, attention with the details of the expression of the madonna, the vibrant strokes on the sleeve, and the contrast that is so characteristic of his work.
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