Depictions of Burqas in Art
Venetian renaissance artist Gentile Bellini depicts them in the painting "St. Mark preaching in Alexandria" (1504–1507). In it, in his depiction of a crowd attired in Ottoman Turkish dress he also includes what appear to be a number of heavily hooded and veiled seated women.
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