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Nov062015

Botticelli: Loving from Afar

DateFriday, November 6, 2015 at 9:00AM

Sandro Botticelli – Primavera - c. 1482 Tempera on panel, 203 x 314 cm (approx. 80 x 126.6 in) - Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence (click photo for larger image)Simonetta Vespucci (1453-1476) (click photo for larger image)Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445 – May 17, 1510. Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli suffered from an unrequited love for Simonetta Vespucci—renowned for being the greatest beauty of her age. According to popular belief, she also served as the model for “The Birth of Venus” and her image recurs throughout Botticelli’s paintings. Simonetta was loved and sought after by all. It was rumored that she and Giuliano de Medici were lovers—and that Lorenzo de Medici was also in love with her. She died in 1476, at the tender age of 22. Botticelli asked to be buried at Simonetta’s feet, in the Church of Ognissanti—the parish church of the Vespucci, in Florence. His wish was in fact carried out when he died some 34 years later, in 1510.

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