Note to 'Borgias' picture researchers

October 18 2011

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Picture: Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti

We loved the opening credits to 'The Borgias', and even had a go at naming the pictures. But a reader writes:

From your story on the Borgias film it appears that Hollywood has left out the most striking image of Cesare Borgia by the unjustly forgotten Altobello Melone [above] in the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo.

It does seem, though, that there is some uncertainty over the sitter. Anybody have further views on this?

 


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