Detail from The Disputation of Saint Catherine. She is immediately preceded by Jofre, recently created Prince of Squillace.ħ. Sancia, wearing a coronet, rides in front of her natural father, King Alfonso II. Sancia d’Aragona and Jofre Borgia, depicted at the time of their wedding in Naples in May 1494. Always – almost certainly correctly – held to be a portrait of the dangerous ‘il Valentino’ at the height of his power.
Traditionally held to be a portrait of the teenage Lucrezia depicted as St Catherine in the fresco The Disputation of Saint Catherine by Pinturicchio in the Sala dei Santi in the Borgia Apartments in the Vatican, 11492 – 4.ĥ. The Rocca, or stronghold, traditionally Lucrezia’s birthplace, still dominates this small town in the hills south-east of Rome.Ĥ.
The beauty which fascinated Lucrezia’s father is hardly evident in this portrait, executed in her later years by an unknown artist.ģ. Detail from a fresco by Pinturicchio in the Borgia Apartments in the Vatican painted shortly after Rodrigo’s accession to the papacy in 1492.Ģ. Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), Lucrezia’s father. PART ONE - The Pope’s Daughter 1480 – 1501
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