Portrait of a Young Woman (Botticelli, Frankfurt)

Portrait of a Young Woman

Artist	Sandro Botticelli
Year	1480–1485
Medium	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 da 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, D.C. 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.

Gallery

Andrea del Verrocchio - Head of a Woman, (verso & recto), c. 1475, charcoal (some oiled?), heightened with lead white, pen and brown ink (r.), charcoal (v.), 324 x 273 mm., British Museum. Verrocchio is credited with inventing this type of ideal beauty.^[2]^[6]
Seal of Nero, a carnelian dating from the time of Augustus once in the possession of Lorenzo de’ Medici, currently housed at the Naples National Archeological Museum

Sources

References

↑ Malaguzzi, p. 73
1 2 Brown, p. 182
↑ Gibson, This write life
↑ Brown, p. 184
↑ Brown, p. 182-4
↑ 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
Gibson, Mary Jo. "What was really in the Medici Treasury?". This Write Life. Archived from the original on 15 September 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2013.
Malaguzzi, Silvia. Botticelli. Giunti Editore, 2009. ISBN 88-09-03677-8
Musa, Mark (1999). Petrarch: The Canzoniere. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0253213174.
Quint, David L. (2005). The Stanze of Angelo Poliziano. Penn State University Press. ISBN 978-0271028712.
Wivel, Matthias. "Traces of Soul, Mind, and Body". The Metabunker. Archived from the original on 15 September 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2013.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Portrait of a Lady, Simonetta Vespucci as a Nymph (Botticelli).

National Gallery of Art - Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women

Botticelli

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