Chiesa di San Salvatore in Ognissanti

This guide follows Sandro Botticelli's lifelong attachment to Simonetta Vespucci, the young noblewoman he kept painting as Venus and Flora long after her death in 1476, and his final request to be buried near her in this Florence church. It also turns to a Ghirlandaio fresco of the Vespucci family sheltered under the Madonna's cloak, painted around 1472, and the tradition, disputed by the church itself, that one kneeling child is a young Amerigo Vespucci.