Portrait of Giuliano de' Medici by Sandro Botticelli, 1479
Apparently this was painted after he was already dead — he was stabbed at Mass in 1478 as part of a plot against his family, and pictures like this got made afterward so people had something to remember him by.
Erisava: Why does he have his eyes closed like that?
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