 Most of these have the appearance of portraits, and were sometimes regarded as contemporaries as portraits of leading Venetian courtesans, but are best thought of as idealized figures of beautiful women which may only loosely reflect any individual.This type was more long-lived in Venetian painting, and made by many other artists; Palma Vecchio for one made a speciality of them.There are several early repetitions that might be by Titian or his workshop, or both.