Portrait of a Young Woman (Botticelli, Frankfurt)

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Portrait of a Young Woman
Sandro Botticelli - Idealized Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph) - Google Art Project.jpg
Artist Sandro Botticelli
Year 1480–1485
Type Tempera on wood
Dimensions 82 cm × 54 cm (32 in × 21 in)
Location Städel

Portrait of a Young Woman is a painting which is commonly believed to be by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, executed between 1480 and 1485. Others attribute authorship to Jacopo del Sellaio. The woman is shown in profile but with her bust turned in three-quarter view to reveal a cameo medallion she is wearing round her neck. The medallion is a copy in reverse of "Nero's Seal", a famous antique carnelian representing Apollo and Marsyas, which belonged to Lorenzo de' Medici.[1][2][3]

It is housed in the Städel of Frankfurt, Germany. Other similar Botticelli paintings are to be found in the National Gallery, London, the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, and in the Marubeni Collection, Tokyo.[4]

David Alan Brown of the National Gallery of Art in Washington describes the painting as of an ideally beautiful young woman mythologised as a nymph or goddess, a view reflected in the title given it by the Städel. It belongs to a group of such paintings by Botticelli or his workshop.[5]

The art historian Aby Warburg first suggested the painting was an idealised portrait of Simonetta Vespucci.

Seal of Nero, a carnelian dating from the time of Augustus once in the possession of Lorenzo de’ Medici. It is now housed at the Naples National Archeological Museum

Gallery

Sources

  1. Malaguzzi, p. 73
  2. 2.0 2.1 Brown, p. 182
  3. Gibson, This write life
  4. Brown, p. 184
  5. Brown, p. 182-4
  6. Wivel, Traces of Soul, Mind, and Body

Bibliography

  • Brown, David Alan (2003). Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691114569
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  • Malaguzzi, Silvia. Botticelli. Giunti Editore, 2009. ISBN 88-09-03677-8
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