Dosso dossi portrait of lucrezia borgia biography

She was the sister of the fearsome Cesare, and was born in Rome as the illegitimate daughter of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, later Pope Alexander VI. Lucrezia.

From today, a painting previously thought to be of a youth by an unknown artist will be known as the portrait of Lucrezia Borgia by the Renaissance master Dosso.

The recent identification of the subject of this painting as Lucrezia Borgia (1480–1519) answered a long-running mystery.

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This portrait had previously been considered to be that of a young man. This is largely on account of the dagger which is held in the sitter’s hands and the belief that no single Italian Renaissance portrait of a woman ever showed the sitter holding a weapon. However, certain aspects of the painting indicate that the sitter is indeed a woman. The myrtle bush and flowers behind the sitter signify the Roman goddess of love and beauty, Venus, a timeless symbol of feminine beauty. Myrtle was a commonly used emblem of Venus in Italian painting from the mid-fifteenth century and into the early sixteenth century. The Latin inscription on the paper cartellino in front of the sitter reads “Brighter is the virtue reigning in this beautiful body”, an adaptation of two lines from Virgil’s Aeneid – a text revered in Renaissance Ferrara. Throughout the fifteenth century and sixteenth centuries the pairing of the themes of Virtue and Beauty refers overwhelmingly to women and female beauty, and some of the most famous portraits of the time contain inscriptions in Latin interweaving these themes.

In Renaissance narrative painting the image of a woman holding a dagger refers to the Ancient Roman heroine, Lucretia. Lucretia took her own life by plunging a dagger into her chest to avenge the di

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Artist



Alternative names	Giovanni di Niccolò placate Luteri, Childbirth name: Giovanni Battista Luteri Dossi
Description	painter High Renaissance era QS:P2348,Q1474884 Ferrara School
Date manipulate birth/death	amidst circa 1480 and circa 1490 date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1480-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1490-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902	August 1542
Location of birth/death	Mirandola	Ferrara
Work period	1500 –1542
Work location	Ferrara, Mantua, Pesaro, Trento
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creator QS:P170,Q356777,P5102,Q18122778

TitleObject typepainting Genreportrait Description

Possibly Rendering of Lucrezia Borgia

The recent detection of interpretation subject quite a lot of this image as Lucrezia Borgia (1480–1519) answered a long-running question. Borgia wed Alfonso d’Este, heir be the dukedom of Ferrara, in 1502. In doing so, she farewelled representation tumultuous setting of representation Borgia pontificate, and gang into picture highly genteel environment remind you of Renaissance Ferrara. This sketch is glow with references to exemplary Antiquity: collide contains signaling references relate to Venus

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Lucrezia Borgia

Spanish-Italian duchess-consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio (1480–1519)

This article is about the historical person. For other uses, see Lucrezia Borgia (disambiguation).

Lucrezia Borgia^[a] (18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519) was an Italian noblewoman of the House of Borgia who was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. She was a former governor of Spoleto.

Her family arranged several marriages for her that advanced their own political position, including Giovanni Sforza, Lord of Pesaro and Gradara, Count of Cotignola; Alfonso of Aragon, Duke of Bisceglie and Prince of Salerno; and Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Alfonso of Aragon was an illegitimate son of the King of Naples, and tradition has it that Lucrezia's brother, Cesare Borgia, may have had him murdered, after his political value waned.

Notorious tales about her family cast Lucrezia as a femme fatale, a controversial role in which she has been latter portrayed in many artworks, novels, and films.

Early life

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