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An early 20th-century painting by Frank Cadogan Cowper that hangs in the Tate Britain art gallery in London portrays Lucrezia taking the place of her father, Pope Alexander VI, at an official Vatican meeting.
This portrait of Lucrezia Borgia was made by Leonardo da Vinci, who was sent as the envoy of Isabella of Aragon ("Mona Lisa") to the wedding of her half-brother Alfonso and his bride Lucrezia Borgia to Rome in 1498.
A Renaissance portrait previously believed to be of a young man is in fact the world's only painting of the infamous Lucrezia Borgia, an Australian museum claimed on Tuesday.
‘Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI‘, Frank Cadogan Cowper, 1908–14
How Sir Galahad, Sir Bors and Sir Percival Were Fed with the Sanct Grael; but Sir Percival’s Sister Died by the Way Dante Gabriel Rossetti
No single portrait of Lucrezia Borgia captures her contradictory nature more than an allegorical painting by Titian that hangs in the Borghese Gallery in Rome. The painting shows Lucrezia on one edge of a small pool, a naked Venus on the other, and a small cupid between them.
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
Among the leading women of the Italian Renaissance, the name of Lucrezia Borgia, who died 24 June 1519, brings to mind scandal and corruption. Born 18 April 1480, Borgia was accused in her own lifetime and by subsequent biographers of ruthless self-promotion, incest and murder.
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 full-length figure in a sumptuous white and gold dress is washing her hands in a basin after preparing a poison draft for her husband Alphonso, Duke of Bisceglia.
