Simonetta Vespucci (<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names">née</a> Cattaneo; c. 1453 – 26 April 1476), nicknamed la bella Simonetta ("the fair Simonetta"), was an <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italians">Italian</a> noblewoman from <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa">Genoa</a>, the wife of Marco Vespucci of <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence">Florence</a> and the cousin-in-law of <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci">Amerigo Vespucci</a>. She was known as the greatest beauty of her age in Italy, and was allegedly the model for many paintings by <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botticelli">Sandro Botticelli</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_di_Cosimo">Piero di Cosimo</a>, and other Florentine painters. Some art historians have taken issue with these attributions, which the Victorian critic <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin">John Ruskin</a> has been blamed for promulgating.<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonetta_Vespucci#cite_note-1">[1]</a>

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