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By Robert Wilde, About.com Guide to European History since 2001

Is this Lucrezia Borgia?

Saturday November 29, 2008
Lucrezia Borgia is the most infamous member of one of the Renaissance’s best known families, the Borgias, thanks to a popular, but probably entirely false, reputation as a poisoner. Until now there were thought to be no surviving formal portraits of her, but the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia is claiming to have identified a painting in its collection as that of Lucrezia. Previously thought to have been of a male because the subject is holding a dagger, the picture has also been identified as the work of Dosso Dossi, painted between 1515 – 20. “The Independent” has a good reproduction online.

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