Simonetta Vespucci

Art

Mystery of Botticelli’s Venus May Be Solved After 500 Years

Abdul Moeed -
The woman whose face inspired Sandro Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" may have died of a tumor that grew inside her skull, a new study suggests. Simonetta Vespucci was only 23 when she died in 1476, and historians have puzzled...