Portrait of Giuliano de' Medici of Berlin (Botticelli)

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Portrait of Giuliano de Medici

Sandro Botticelli, 1478

Panel

54 × 36 cm

Staatliche Museen

The Portrait of Giuliano de Medici is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, 1478. It is housed in the Staatliche Museen of Berlin.

Three similar portraits of Giuliano by Botticelli still exist. In contrast to the version in Washington, the portraits that are now in Bergamo and Berlin were probably not created until after Giuliano's assassination during the Pazzi conspiracy in 1478, when copies would have been ordered by friends and relatives as commemorative portraits.