Sandro Botticelli et Simonetta Vespucci | Marc Lefrançois

The burial place of Simonetta Vespucci and Sandro Botticelli. Church of Ognissanti in Florence. #renaissance | History By Lynny

Simonetta Vespucci died young, but her image shaped an era. Admired in life, mythologized in death, she became the face of an ideal that Renaissance Florence could not let go of. Sandro Botticelli did not paint her again and again as a portrait, but as a language of beauty, memory, and longing. Some lives are brief. Some images last centuries. #SimonettaVespucci #Botticelli #RenaissanceArt #ArtHistory #KnowHerName | Irene Noren