Take a closer look and you ll realize that the veil isn t textile but rather marble.
Marble sculpture woman veil.
The veiled rebecca or the veiled rebekah is a marble sculpture created by the italian neoclassical sculptor giovanni maria benzoni history and description.
Veiled figures usually carved from marble and suggesting a face or body partly obscured.
Benzoni first executed the work in.
Also known as the bride this sculpture was created by the italian sculptor raphaelle monti who came to live and work in england 1850.
The veiled lady a bust after the antique by monti 1875.
Secondly a veiled woman had become an allegory for italian unification.
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 now at 56 he wanted a certain young woman demurely and paradoxically hiding behind a veil of stone.
And i m sure you are too.
For years the translucent marble veil of this masterpiece has mystified people who have set eyes on it.