Italy: Portrait of a Lady (Simonetta Vespucci as a Nymph), Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), 1480

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445 – May 17, 1510), was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his Vita of Botticellias as a 'golden age'.

Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting.

Simonetta Vespucci (nee Cattaneo; ca. 1453 – 26 April 1476), nicknamed la bella Simonetta, was an Italian noblewoman from Genoa, the wife of Marco Vespucci of Florence and the cousin in law of Amerigo Vespucci. She was renowned for being the greatest beauty of her age.

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