Blue Portrait by Gazi Sansoy
Limited Edition, Edition of: 100, Signed
Limited Edition, Edition of: 100, Signed

Blue Portrait

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27.6 x 20.9
55.1 x 41.7
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2012 / 2013 GZA06

The Secret of BeautyTurkish artist Gazi Sansoy has been fascinated by the portraits of the renaissance for many years.The elegant Simonetta Vespucci from Florence was seen as the embodiment of Italian beauty during this period, and was painted by… Read more

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Gazi Sansoy
The Secret of BeautyTurkish artist Gazi Sansoy has been fascinated by the portraits of the renaissance for many years.The elegant Simonetta Vespucci from Florence was seen as the embodiment of Italian beauty during this period, and was painted by some of the most famous artists of the era. Sandro Botticelli, for example, declared her to be his muse and glorified her as the Roman goddess Venus. Piero di Cosimo portrayed her as Cleopatra wearing a necklace of snakes. Her depiction was therefore more through idealistic images than realistic portraits, and she became the source of myth and fantasy. The Italians named here “Regina della belezza”: Queen of beauty.Is beauty merely an illusion?Read more