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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.
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 ...
The art historian Aby Warburg first suggested the painting was an idealised portrait of Simonetta Vespucci. This challenged a previous interpretation, put forward by German scholars, according to which the painting describes an ideally beautiful young woman mythologised as a nymph or goddess, a view reflected in the title given it by the Städel.
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Sts. Peter, John the Baptist, Dominic, and Nicholas of Bari (1481–85) tempera and oil on panel, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints. Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci (c. 1480) Oil on panel, 57 x 42 cm, Musée Condé, Chantilly, France
The painting will be auctioned on Nov. 20 in Toronto, with its value estimated at $100,000 to $200,000. Canadian painter Emily Carr’s artwork will be sold at auction. Facebook
Exhibition history: Botticelli Reimagined, Victoria and Albert Museum (5 March 2016 - 3 July 2016) ; The Renaissance Portrait. From Donatello to Bellini, Metropolitan Museum of Art (21 December 2011 - 18 March 2012)
A painting bought at a garage sale in Minnesota is a previously unknown portrait by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh, according to a newly published expert analysis.. It was made by Van Gogh during ...
President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office on Jan. 20. Once he takes the reins, a number of economic changes could ensue. Trump has proposed slapping tariffs on goods the U.S. imports from ...