artmastered:Frank Cadogan Cowper, Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexa
artmastered:Frank Cadogan Cowper, Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI, 1908-14, oil on canvas, 221 x 153.7 cm, Tate Collection. SourceLucrezia Borgia, the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI, once acted as a stand-in for her father at a Cardinal meeting in 1501. Cowper chose to depict a fictional moment when a Franciscan monk kisses the shoe of Lucrezia. -- source link