Portrait of a Young Man with a Medal
The sitter, who has been variously identified as the artist's brother or as the artist himself, holds a medal portraying Cosimo the Elder, which was coined after 1464. The portrait dates from 1474/5. At the Uffizi since 1704.
Author: Sandro Botticelli - Alessandro Filipepi
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