Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Novice of San Secondo, c. 1490.  Jacometto Veneziano.  This attire, particularly the head garb, may be secular, while some scholars consider it to be Benedictine or Dominican. The San Secondo convent was reserved for daughters of the wealthiest Venetians and conventions of dress were fairly loose until 1515 when strict reforms were enforced by religious and political authorities in Venice.
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