They were rather an allusion to Her features have a surprising purity. It is traditionally identified as a portrait of Simonetta. Favourite Add to Album Share. The painting of the artist Sandro Botticelli is the conventional name “Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci” or “Portrait of a Young Woman”.

Idealised Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph), ca. An alternative suggestion is that she is presented as The bust, in 15th-century style, is slightly turned towards the spectator, so as to favour the view, and her shoulders are wrapped in a richly embroidered cloth. 0.3 cm maximum depth 1.0 cm Physical Description Mixed technique on poplar Inventory Number 936 Acquisition Acquired in 1849 Status It is housed in the Stadelsches Kunstinstitut of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The hairstyle is that of a married woman, gathered up in braids and richly decorated with ribbons, beads, and pearls.

Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo, dating from about 1480 or 1490. At age sixteen she married Marco Vespucci, son of Piero, who was a distant cousin of the explorer and cartographer Simonetta and Marco were married in Florence that same year. It is uncertain how closely the painting resembles Simonetta Vespucci, particularly since if it is a portrait of her, it is posthumous, having been painted about 14 years after her death. The size of the picture is 47.5 x 35 cm.

When she died, Piero di Cosimo was only 14 years old, so it is possible that it could be a copy of a work by an earlier artist. The dark clouds are a symbol of her early death, as is the dead tree in the background.The dark clouds contrast with the pure profile of the face and the clear complexion. • Portrait of a Woman by the workshop of Sandro Botticelli, early-mid 1480s The identification of the picture is controversial, but it is ascertained that the work was done in the Botticelli workshop. Dimensions 81.3 x 54 x min. Le Portrait de Simonetta Vespucci, aussi nommé Portrait d'une jeune femme, est un des deux portraits de Simonetta Vespucci peints par l'artiste florentin Sandro Botticelli entre 1476 et 1480, celui conservé à la Gemäldegalerie (musée d'État) de Berlin [1 Histoire. According to Schneider, her naked breasts would not have caused any offense to contemporary viewers. 1480. The forehead is high, according to the fashion of the time which included a shaved hairline. The Portrait of a Young Woman is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, executed around 1480-1485. The subject is a young girl portrayed at half length in profile, facing left. The Musée Condé questions the identification of the subject, titling the painting

Le Portrait de Simonetta Vespucci est un tableau peint par Piero di Cosimo (1462 - 1522) et conservé au musée Condé à Chantilly (France). The sitter is identified as Simonetta Vespucci on basis of a portrait by Piero di Cosimo. Portrait of a young woman also known as Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as a Nymph by Botticelli 1480s If we would compare Simonetta Vespucci’s fame to someone closer to our own time, trying to understand the real meaning of what she was then, we probably must think on someone like a super model of the 1990s or Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s. Simonetta Vespucci was an inspiration for several female characters of Sandro Botticelli’s artworks. Viewed as a female ideal, the woman in this portrait has features considered to be perfect at that time. In the background is an open landscape, arid on the left and lush on the right.

According to legend, Simonetta quickly became popular at the Florentine court, and attracted the interest of the Medici brothers, Simonetta Vespucci died just one year later, most likely from The vulgar assumption, for instance, that she was Botticelli's model for all his famous beauties seems to be based on no better grounds than the feeling that the most beautiful woman of the day ought to have modelled for the most sensitive painter.Some art historians, including John Ruskin, suggest that Botticelli had fallen in love with Simonetta, a view supported by Botticelli's request to be buried in the Botticelli painted the standard carried by Giuliano at the joust in 1475, which carried an image of Detail of the Venus figure, representing marriage, in Simonetta Vespucci may also be depicted in the painting by Piero di Cosimo titled Plusieurs noms ont été avancés pour le commanditaire de ce tableau. It is in the Musée Condé in Chantilly, France. Her breasts are bared and a small snake twines around the necklace she is wearing.