Located in the Staaliche Museum in Berlin, the portrait was most likely largely executed by Botticelli’s workshop in the late 1400s. While tradition identifies the sitter as the legendary Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci, who was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Renaissance Florence and Botticelli’s principal muse, others have proposed Lucrezia Tornabuoni or Clarice Orsini instead. Regardless of the sitter’s identity, the portrait captures the extraordinary beauty of a woman in the flower of her youth. Buona visione!