Simonetta Vespucci, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Simonetta Vespucci

Italian noblewoman

Date of Birth: 06-Feb-1453

Place of Birth: Porto Venere, Liguria, Italy

Date of Death: 05-May-1476

Profession: art model, model

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Simonetta Vespucci (née Cattaneo; 1453 – 26 April 1476), nicknamed la bella 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.)



Alternative names	Birth name: Allessandro Filipepi Sandro Filipepi Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi Botticelli
Description	painter and artist
Date of birth/death	1 March 1445	17 May 1510 / 16 May 1510
Location of birth/death	Florence	Florence
Work location	Florence (1469–1481), Pisa (1475), Rome (1481–1482), Florence (1482–1490), Volterra (ca. 1483), Mantua (1502), Florence (1503–1510)
Authority control	: Q5669 VIAF: 19686406 ISNI: 0000 0001 2099 4768 ULAN: 500015254 LCCN: n79022942 NLA: 35020599 WorldCat