Giuliano de' Medici
by BOTTICELLI, Sandro, Tempera on panel, 57 x 39 cm
Three similar portraits of Giuliano de’ Medici still exist, in Berlin, Bergamo, and Washington. In contrast to the version in Washington, the portraits that are now in Berlin and Bergamo 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.