Juana Romani (born Carolina Giovanna Carlesimo; 30 April 1867 – 13 June 1923[citation needed]) was an Italian-born French portrait painter and artists' model.

She was especially valued as a painter of female portraits, including many women from notable families, often depicting them as mythological or symbolic figures.

First with the sculptor Alexandre Falguière and then with various famous painters such as Jean-Jacques Henner, Victor Prouvé, Raphaël Collin, Carolus-Duran et Ferdinand Roybet who admire her youthful yet well-shaped body, her mischievous face with a dimple on her chin, and her hair with reddish highlights.

Initially, she paints under her name, Carolina Carlesimo di Casalvieri, but occasionally signs her works as Veliterna Romains Juana.

In 1888, at the age of twenty-one, Romani participated in her first Salon, showing the public a watercolor painting titled La Gitane.

Carolus-Duran, who oversaw the studio she attended, explicitly supported her by asking his colleague Jean-Jacques Henner to influence the jury members in her favor.

With their long billowing hair, enigmatic poses, Romani's figures exude a mysticism and power that feels both in line with the height of 1900s Paris and fashion today.