Simonetta Vespucci
Italian noblewoman (1453–1476) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Simonetta Vespucci (née Cattaneo; c. 1453 – 26 April 1476), nicknamed la bella Simonetta ("the fair Simonetta"), was an Italian noblewoman from Genoa, the wife of Marco Vespucci of Florence and the cousin-in-law of Amerigo Vespucci. She was known as the greatest beauty of her age in Italy, and was allegedly the model for many paintings by Sandro Botticelli, Piero di Cosimo, and other Florentine painters. Some art historians have taken issue with these attributions, which the Victorian critic John Ruskin has been blamed for promulgating.[1]
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Born | Simonetta Cattaneo c. 1453 |
Died | 26 April 1476(1476-04-26) (aged 22–23) |
Spouse |
Marco Vespucci (m. 1469) |
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Relatives | Amerigo Vespucci (cousin-in-law) |
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