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PIERO DI COSIMO: Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci

🖼 Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci, c. 1480
Oil on panel
57 × 42 cm
Chantilly, France

Soft, luminous brushwork captures a young woman in three-quarter profile, her delicate features set against dark background. Renaissance Florence's ideal beauty, Simonetta became a legendary muse whose early death transformed her into myth and artistic inspiration.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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