Lucrezia Donati was an Italian noblewoman, mistress of Lorenzo de' Medici.
Detail of the head of the painting Fortitude, by Sandro Botticelli. It is hypothesized that the painting was inspired by Lucrezia.
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Fortitude is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, finished in 1470. Housed in the Galleria degli Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, Fortitude was the first recorded masterpiece by Botticelli.
Fortitude (Botticelli)