The Borgias and their time. From Leonardo da Vinci to Michelangelo.
Gallimard| N° d'inventaire | 18697 |
| Format | 24.5 x 28.5 cm |
| Détails | 190 p., color illustrations. |
| Publication | Paris, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
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The exhibition at the Musée Maillol in Paris presents around a hundred works, paintings, and sculptures, created by the most renowned artists of the time, such as Giovanni Bellini, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Andrea Mantegna, Raphael, and Titian. The three most important figures of the Borgia family are evoked in the exhibition and in this book. Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI (1431-1503), had Vannozza Cattanei as his companion, who bore him several children. Cesare Borgia (1476-1507), an ambitious condottiere and politician, inspired Nicolas Machiavelli for his famous work The Prince, the first treatise on modern politics. Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519), Caesar's sister, was one of the most extraordinary women of the Renaissance, endowed with great culture but also a sulphurous reputation. In the Borgia Apartments in the Vatican, Pinturicchio painted a series of frescoes depicting portraits of all the members of the family and the key moments in their lives, details of which are reproduced in this catalogue.
The exhibition at the Musée Maillol in Paris presents around a hundred works, paintings, and sculptures, created by the most renowned artists of the time, such as Giovanni Bellini, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Andrea Mantegna, Raphael, and Titian. The three most important figures of the Borgia family are evoked in the exhibition and in this book. Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI (1431-1503), had Vannozza Cattanei as his companion, who bore him several children. Cesare Borgia (1476-1507), an ambitious condottiere and politician, inspired Nicolas Machiavelli for his famous work The Prince, the first treatise on modern politics. Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519), Caesar's sister, was one of the most extraordinary women of the Renaissance, endowed with great culture but also a sulphurous reputation. In the Borgia Apartments in the Vatican, Pinturicchio painted a series of frescoes depicting portraits of all the members of the family and the key moments in their lives, details of which are reproduced in this catalogue.