A drawing by Botticelli. I think its called "Allegory". What I like about it is the way the female figure's clothes are highlighted in such detail. It is a lovely drawing, pleasing to the eye. What more can I add?
I think the model was the same one he used in his painting "Primavera". Note the third figure from the right of the painting, - "Flora".
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Not only is it the same model he used for Primavera, but for almost every other female figure he painted throughout the last 30 years of his life, even though she was long dead. The model is the beautiful Florentine woman Simonetta Vespucci who died at age 22 in 1476. Botticelli died in 1510, and he stopped painting around 1500. Like every other man in Renaissance Florence, Botticelli fell under Simonetta's spell.
Thank you for that background. I did not know this.
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