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Simonetta Vespucci, the muse who was a model both for Botticelli and many others, died at the age of 23

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If we had to choose the most famous paintings in history, there would certainly be one from Botticelli and, most likely, the one chosen would be The birth of Venus, which is one of the greatest paintings ever produced in Quattrocento. The curious thing is we can also admire the face of this goddess in other paintings of the time, both by the same author and his contemporaries (Piero de Cosimo, Ghirlandaio). This is due to the model who posed and the enormous popularity she achieved in her short life: Simonetta Vespucci. The beautiful Simonetta, as she would be known, did not reach this world in such a spectacular way as the character to whom she would later lend her image, but neither was it an ordinary birth, since her parents were of distinguished bloodlines: he was a Genoese aristocrat named Gaspare Cattaneo Della Volta who married Cattocchia Spinola, whose surname would later be closely linked to Spain. Details of the occasion are uncertain, however, as neither the date (28 January

If we had to choose the most famous paintings in history, there would certainly be one from Botticelli and, most likely, the one chosen would be The birth of Venus , which is one of the greatest paintings ever produced in Quattrocento. The curious thing is we can also admire the face of this goddess in other paintings of the time, both by the same author and his contemporaries (Piero de Cosimo, Ghirlandaio). This is due to the model who posed and the enormous popularity she achieved in her short life: Simonetta Vespucci. The beautiful Simonetta , as she would be known, did not reach this world

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