Painting may be portrait of Lucrezia Borgia
Wednesday November 26, 2008
A portrait in the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, has recently been identified as having been painted by Dosso Dossi. Originally known as Portrait of a Youth, scholars now believe it may depict Lucrezia Borgia, the famous -- or infamous -- daughter of Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI). This may be the only official portrait of Lucrezia, who, having long been cast as a wicked woman, is now considered by most scholars of the subject to have been a victim of her unscrupulous father.
Find out more about the painting in the article at The World Today, which you can listen to as a podcast, and have a look at the portrait in question in the feature at cbcnews.


Comments
I was under the impression that Lucrezia was a great beauty.