Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci
Piero di Cosimo · 1480
The story
Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo, dating from about 1480 or 1490. It is in the Musée Condé in Chantilly, France.
Simonetta Vespucci was a Genoese noblewoman who married Marco Vespucci of Florence at the age of either 15 or 16, and who was renowned for being the greatest beauty of her age - certainly of the city of Florence. She was admired by all of Florence for her beauty, which later became a legend after her premature death in 1476 at the age of 23. Sandro Botticelli was inspired by her features in The Birth of Venus and Piero di Cosimo was a passionate admirer.
- Artist
- Piero di Cosimo
- Date
- 1480
- Collection
- Condé Museum, Chantilly, France
- Movement
- Early Renaissance
- Medium
- tempera, panel
- Size
- 57 × 42 cm
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