Take a closer look and you ll realize that the veil isn t textile but rather marble.
Marble sculpture woman veil.
That s the marvel of the veiled virgin a 19 th century sculpture by italian artist giovanni strazza.
The veiled rebecca or the veiled rebekah is a marble sculpture created by the italian neoclassical sculptor giovanni maria benzoni history and description.
For years the translucent marble veil of this masterpiece has mystified people who have set eyes on it.
The veiled lady a bust after the antique by monti 1875.
Veiled figures usually carved from marble and suggesting a face or body partly obscured behind fabric had first become popular a hundred years earlier in the 1700s.
And i m sure you are too.
And now at 56 he wanted a certain young woman demurely and paradoxically hiding behind a veil of stone.
Veiled figures usually carved from marble and suggesting a face or body partly obscured.
Benzoni first executed the work in.
Secondly a veiled woman had become an allegory for italian unification.