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Simonetta Vespucci may also be depicted in the painting by Piero di Cosimo titled Portrait of a woman, said to be of Simonetta Vespucci, which portrays a woman as Cleopatra, with an asp around her neck. Yet how closely this resembles Simonetta is uncertain, not least because it is a posthumous portrait created about 14 years after her death.
In 1478, Giuliano was promised in marriage to Semiramide Appiani Aragona, daughter of Iacopo III Appiani, Prince of Piombino and niece of his presumed lover Simonetta Vespucci, [2] though died before the wedding could take place. [3] After Giuliano's death, Semiramide married his cousin, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, in 1482. [3]
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.
The Death of Procris, c. 1495 Perseus Freeing Andromeda, oil on canvas, 1510 or 1513, Uffizi Tritons and Nereids (1500), oil on panel, 37 x158 cm, Milano, Altomani collection Piero di Cosimo (2 January 1462 [ 1 ] – 12 April 1522), also known as Piero di Lorenzo , was an Italian Renaissance painter , who continued to use an essentially Early ...
Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci (1453-1476) [4] Doges of the Republic of Genoa. Oberto Cattaneo Lazzari (1473–1533), the 46th Doge of the Republic of Genoa.
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