Portrait of a Youth (c1518). Possibly portrait of Lucrezia Borgia. Dosso Dossi (Italian Renaissance,
Portrait of a Youth (c1518). Possibly portrait of Lucrezia Borgia. Dosso Dossi (Italian Renaissance, 1490–1542).Dossi belonged to the Ferrara School of Painting. The School of Ferrara was a group of painters which flourished in the Duchy of Ferrara during the Renaissance. Ferrara was ruled by the Este family, well known for its patronage of the arts.Lucrezia Borgia (1480–1519) was the illegitimate daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became Pope Alexander VI.Lucrezia’s family later came to epitomize the ruthless Machiavellian politics and sexual corruption alleged to be characteristic of the Renaissance Papacy. Lucrezia was cast as a femme fatale. -- source link
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