House of Borgia | The Picture of Dorian Gray

THE PREFACE CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XX.

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House of Borgia Item Info

Cesare Borgia

IMAGE

Pope Alexander VI

Portrait attributed to Pedro Berruguete (c. 1495, oil on canvas, Vatican Museums)

IMAGE

Lucrezia Borgia

Portrait by Dosso Dossi which is purported to depict Lucrezia, c. 1518

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Title:: House of Borgia
Creator:: John Collier
Date Created:: 1893
Description:: Painting by John Collier, "A glass of wine with Caesar Borgia", from left: Cesare Borgia, Lucrezia, Pope Alexander, and a young man holding an empty glass. The painting represents the popular view of the treacherous nature of the Borgias – the implication being that the young man cannot be sure that the wine is not poisoned.
Subjects:: allusion historical figures
Location:: Paddington
Type:: Image;StillImage
Format:: compound_object

Attribution

Citation:: "House of Borgia", The Picture of Dorian Gray, UChicago Center for Digital Scholarship, /dorian-explorer/items/dor085.html

Rights

Rights:: Public Doman
Standardized Rights:: Found on Wikipedia

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