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La Bella is a portrait of an unknown woman by Titian painted around 1536 and now in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The work of a mature artist it shows the woman with Renaissance ideal proportions and a natural expressive force The composition is clear.The painting may be a portrait of Isabella d’Este or her daughter Eleonora Gonzaga. Titian likely used the same model for the Venus of Urbino.