• as Simonetta Vespucci (season 2): Giuliano's lover Filippo Nigro as Luca Soderini (season 2): Lorenzo's ally Annabel Scholey as Contessina de' Bardi (season...
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    possibly Simonetta Vespucci, 1484. The Roman engraved gem on her necklace was owned by Lorenzo de’ Medici. La Bella Simonetta, also said to be of Simonetta Vespucci...
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  • in September 1972 and was organized by Giovanni Battista Giorgini with Simonetta Colonna di Cesarò's participation. It started out being called the “First...
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    Pope Clement VII). Both Giuliano and Simonetta had been dead for several years when this painting was made: Simonetta died in 1476 at 22, and Giuliano had...
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    beauty Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci, of whom popular legend claims both Lorenzo and his younger brother, Giuliano, were great admirers. Simonetta was possibly...
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    the painting in the 1470s, it was proposed that the model for Venus was Simonetta Vespucci, wife of Marco Vespucci and according to popular legend the mistress...
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    Aby Warburg first suggested the painting was an idealised portrait of Simonetta Vespucci. This challenged a previous interpretation, put forward by German...
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    argues the work was inspired by and depicts Botticelli's alleged muse, Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci. Botticelli donated the painting to Pope Sixtus IV who...
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    Ballo (born 1952), tenor Mario Balotelli (born 1990), footballer Mario Bardi (1922–1998), painter Ernesto Basile (1857–1932), architect Letizia Battaglia...
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    Detail of one of the women at the pit, perhaps a portrait of Simonetta Vespucci...
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