Simonetta Vespucci
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Italian noblewoman
Key facts
- Born
- Simonetta Cattaneo , c. 1453 , Genoa or Portovenere , Republic of Genoa
- Died
- 26 April 1476 (1476-04-26) (aged 22–23), Florence , Republic of Florence
- Spouse
- Marco Vespucci ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1469 )
- Parents
- Gaspare Cattaneo della Volta (father) Caterina Violante "Cattocchia" Spinola (mother)
- Relatives
- Amerigo Vespucci (cousin-in-law)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Republic of Florence
- Place of birth
- Genoa
- Place of death
- Florence
- Occupation
- aristocrat
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Family
- House of Spinola
- Image
- Piero di Cosimo - Portrait de femme dit de Simonetta Vespucci - Google Art Project.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1453-02-06
- pseudonym
- la bella Simonetta
- Commons category
- Simonetta Vespucci
- cause of death
- tuberculosis
- medical condition
- tuberculosis
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons gallery
- Simonetta Vespucci Portrait
- birth name
- Simonetta Cattaneo
- depicted by
- Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci
- date of death
- 1476-05-05
- name in native language
- Simonetta Vespucci
- place of burial
- Ognissanti Church
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Encyclopedic overview
Simonetta Vespucci (née Cattaneo; c. 1453 – 26 April 1476), nicknamed la bella Simonetta ("the fair Simonetta"), was an Italian noblewoman from Genoa, the wife of Marco Vespucci of Florence and the cousin-in-law of Amerigo Vespucci. She was known as the greatest beauty of her age in Italy, and was allegedly the model for many paintings by Sandro Botticelli, Piero di Cosimo, and other Florentine painters. Some art historians have taken issue with these attributions, which the Victorian critic John Ruskin has been blamed for promulgating.
Biography
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