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Showing posts with label 1453. Show all posts
6 February 2019

Girolamo Benivieni – poet

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Follower of Plato, Dante and Savonarola Girolamo Benivieni, pictured as an old man in a painting attributed to Ridolfo Ghirlandaio T...
28 January 2018

Simonetta Vespucci – Renaissance beauty

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Noblewoman hailed as embodiment of female perfection Simonetta Vespucci, as recalled by Sandro Botticelli in his 1480s Portrait of...
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