Portrait of a Youth, Dosso Dossi, circa 1518

Possibly portrait of lucrezia borgia the recent identification of the subject of this painting as lucrezia borgia (1480–1519) answered a long-running mystery. Borgia married alfonso d’este, heir to the duchy of ferrara, in 1502. In doing so, she farewelled the tumultuous affairs of the borgia papacy, and settled into the highly cultured environment of renaissance ferrara. This portrait is flush with references to classical antiquity: it contains symbolic references to venus and the ancient roman heroine lucretia, and is thematically united by its latin inscription, ‘brighter [than beauty] is the virtue reigning in this beautiful body’, a sophisticated adaptation of a verse from virgil’s aeneid. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: circa 1518. Dimensions: height: 74.5 cm (29.3 in) ; width: 57.2 cm (22.5 in). Medium: oil on panel. Depicted People: Lucrezia Borgia. Collection: National Gallery of Victoria. Dossi dossi, lucrezia borgia, 1518 circa02

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Author: Presumably Dosso Dossi (–1542)Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/

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italian renaissance,school of ferrara portrait of lucrezia borgia in male clothing (att. dosso dossi)16th-century oil oval portraits of women at bust length 16th-century portrait paintings in australia guimp 16th-century oil on panel paintings in australia 1518 paintings from italy 1518 paintings in australia dosso dossi oil on panel portrait lucrezia borgia national gallery of victoria