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Jan 3, 2017 · Claim: The modern image of Jesus is modeled on Cesare Borgia, a gangster's son. Rating: False. About this rating. Whether modern depictions of the appearance of Jesus are historically accurate...
Aug 30, 2019 · One of the more famous depictions of Jesus, in Giotto di Bondone’s The Lamentation of Christ, depicts Jesus as longhaired, handsome, and white. There are physical similarities between this image and Borgia, and the painting was made in 1305. Borgia is believed to have been born in 1475 or 1476.
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Oct 5, 2023 · Updated February 26, 2024. Born around 1475 as Pope Alexander VI's illegitimate son, Cesare Borgia was a notorious noble, cardinal, and soldier who died brutally in 1507. Accademia Carrara Due to his papal roots, Cesare Borgia made an unforgettable mark on history. But nepotism could only carry him so far.
I have recently stumbled upon the claim that during his papacy, Pope Alexander VI felt that the Semitic and Arab looking images of Christ where not to his liking so he commissioned the creation of new portraits of Jesus, with his son Cesare as the model, hence the Caucasian looking image of Jesus that is popular in Western culture.
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- Cesare Borgia Liked to Use Prisoners as Target Practice
- Cesare Borgia Had Two Traitors Twisted to Death
- Lucrezia Borgia Wore A Hollow Ring That Acted as A Poison Dispenser
- The Borgias Hosted A Sex Competition
Born in Xàtiva, near Valencia, Rodrigo Borgia was a career churchman and power player. He was made a cardinal in 1456 and became Pope Alexander VI in 1492. But in June 1460, he found himself on the ropes after a strongly worded letter from Pope Pius II. Rodrigo attended a garden party in Siena that was so wild and sinful that the pope in his compla...
There have certainly been mixed views of Pope Alexander VI over the years. While he won praise from several of his papal successors, one 19th-century historian called him a ‘satanic priest’ who surrounded himself in the Vatican with ‘harlots, sorcerers, and bravos [hitmen]’. He was said to have bought the papacy through bribery, and amassed wealth ...
Pope Alexander was nearly 40 when he fell for the 28-year-old Vannozza dei Cattanei, mother of Lucrezia and Cesare and two of their siblings. Alexander was nearly 60 when he seduced 16-year-old Giulia Farnese, a young married noblewoman who, after he became pope in 1492, moved into a palace in the Vatican. Their frequent nights together earned Giul...
Cesare was handsome and a highly capable military leader and administrator, but he was also a ruthless tyrant. At the height of Cesare’s power, one chronicler reported that the bodies of murdered men were fished out of the Tiber in Rome every single day. He was also reported to enjoy standing above prison courtyards in Rome and practising his cross...
In 1502, Cesare learned of a planned mutiny against him by several of his leading captains. He invited the conspirators to Senigallia, where, to lull them into a false sense of security, he was as nice as pie to them. Once Cesare’s loyal guards had the would-be traitors disarmed and under his control, he decided to make an example of two of the chi...
The Borgias were said to have been so disposed towards poisoning that they took as much care in preparing poisons in their cellars as they did with their fine wines. Lucrezia was said to have favoured a poison known as Cantarella, a variation of arsenic. According to the tales, Lucrezia wore a hollow ring on her finger. The ring contained the prepa...
Though some historians dispute the event, an influential contemporary chronicler, Johann Burchard, left a detailed account of the so-called Banquet of Chestnuts. According to Burchard, on 30th October 1501, Cesare, Lucrezia, and Pope Alexander hosted a sumptuous banquet in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. ‘Fifty honest prostitutes’ attended the...
Sep 30, 2016 · The great-grandson of the infamous Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI), Francis was born on 28 October 1510, the first son and heir of Juan de Borgia, third duke of Gandía and grandee of Spain. Raised in palaces among the elites, he later served at the court of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V from 1528. There he met and married Leonor de Castro, a ...
Tláloc in the Codex Laud. Tláloc ( Classical Nahuatl: Tláloc [ˈtɬaːlok]) [5] is the god of rain in Aztec religion. He was also a deity of earthly fertility and water, [6] worshipped as a giver of life and sustenance. This came to be due to many rituals, and sacrifices that were held in his name.
