This young woman with disheveled hair – another pretender to be considered Simonetta Vespucci, the subject of adoration Giuliano Medici. The lively and unbridled character of the model allows you to rather imagine Juliano as her lover, rather than the rather boring heroine of the previous “Portrait of a Young Woman”.
The murder of Giuliano in the Florentine cathedral in 1478 added a romantic flair to this story about lovers and led to the emergence of a whole batch of followers of this portrait as the true image of Simonetta.
In fact, there is no serious evidence that at least one of the portraits portrays Simonetta. Although, according to Vasari, one of the pictures is written from it, it is impossible to identify this image, because Botticelli never revealed the names of his models. It is also possible that this is not the work of the artist himself; it is often attributed to the workshop, and not to Botticelli himself.
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