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Painting entitled "Portrait of Amerigo Vespucci". This is a copy of an earlier painting from the Museo Nationale in Naples mistakenly identified for a long time as being the Italian navigator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci" class="extiw" title="w:Amerigo Vespucci">Amerigo Vespucci</a> (1454-1512), painted by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Parmigianino" title="Parmigianino">Parmigianino</a>. The Naples portrait has since been determined to be a portrait of Giovanni Battista Castaldi, <i><b>not</b></i> Vespucci, and probably originally painted by Michelangelo Anselmi (not Parmigianino). (see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://museodicapodimonte.campaniabeniculturali.it/itinerari-tematici/galleria-di-immagini/OA900052/">current entry</a> at Museo Capodimonte). The  National Library of Australia still retains this 19th copy by its original title "Portrait of Amerigo Vespucci", and as a result this painting sometimes mistakenly used as an illustration of Vespucci's likeness.</div>
<bdi>After <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Michelangelo_Anselmi" class="extiw" title="w:en:Michelangelo Anselmi"><span title="Italian painter (1492-1556)">Michelangelo Anselmi</span></a>
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19<sup>th</sup> century <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7</div> copy of a painting of 1530s
National Library of Australia <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an2310320">[2]</a>