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Simonetta Vespucci: The Face That Launched A Thousand Prints Described by Botticelli as "the unparalleled one," the face of Italian Renaissance beauty Simonetta Vespucci is known to people all over the world as the face of Venus, and she's almost as famous as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. For That Knee Alone There was an unspoken compeitition between Italian Renaissance giants Michelangelo and Raphael, and this is a story about how each artist paid homage to the other in a subtle way. The Outrageous Life of Benvenuto Cellini in His Own Words Few men have lived life as full as late Italian Renaissance mannerist artist, Benvenuto Cellini. Born in 1500, Cellini would be thrilled that we still talk about his life five hundred years after his birth. And no one tells a story better than Cellini.