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What happened to Sandro Botticelliās fresco of the Pazzi conspirators?
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Sandro Botticelli
Birth of Venus, tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Following the Pazzi conspiracy of 1478, Sandro Botticelli was commissioned to paint a defamatory fresco on a wall of the Palazzo Vecchio depicting the hanged conspirators. This work was ultimately destroyed in 1494 following the expulsion of the Medici family from Florence.1