artmastered:Piero di Cosimo, Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci, c.1480, oil on panel, 57 x 42 cm, Musée
artmastered:Piero di Cosimo, Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci, c.1480, oil on panel, 57 x 42 cm, Musée Condé, Chantilly. SourceThe renowned Renaissance beauty Simonetta Vespucci was a favourite model for a number of Florentine artists. Here, Piero di Cosimo has represented Simonetta as the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, complete with the killer asp entwined around her necklace. -- source link
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