Botticelli’s “La Bella Simonetta” on Display in Tokyo

(ANSA) - TOKYO, 07 AGO - The exhibition “La Bella Simonetta as Depicted in Italian and Japanese Literary Works” opened at the Marubeni Gallery in Tokyo and will run through September 30. The exhibition, sponsored by the Italian Embassy in Japan, is part of the celebrations marking the 160th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Rome and Tokyo and coincides with the 550th anniversary of the death of Simonetta Vespucci, the Florentine noblewoman immortalized by Sandro Botticelli. At the h...

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