Rogier van der weyden's Portrait of a Young Woman c.1445
a cloth elaborated folded over the head around the neck,cheeks and chin to conceal a married woman's hair -worn in late medieval Europe-originally adopted by Western women as a result of the veiled Muslim women encountered by European men during the Crusades.
Raphaelle Peale's Venus Rising from the Sea- A Deception c.1823
The Peale painting alludes to the censure of artistic nudes in the United States in the early 19th century.
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