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Picture the Borgias: What Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us Kings & Queens 7 Roger Gill Ruling Sexualities Winchester 12th July 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 2 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us Sala dei Sala dei Pontefici Sala dei Sala delle Misteri Santi Arti Liberali Sala del Sala delle Credo Sibille Torre Borgia 3 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 4 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 5 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 6 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 7 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 8 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 9 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 10 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 11 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 12 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 13 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 14 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 15 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 16 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 17 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 18 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 19 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 20 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 21 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 22 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 23 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 24 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 25 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 26 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 1460 - 1475 1517 27 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us 28 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us • Family man • Not particularly lascivious • Admirer (respecter?) of women • Open, tolerant • Proud of his ‘heritage’ • Seeking acceptance • Sins of the son visited on the father? 29 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us Roger Gill Kings & Queens 7- Ruling Sexualities Winchester 12th July 2018 [email protected] 30 © Roger Gill 2018 © Roger Gill 2016 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us Picture titles Slide Title 2 Plan of the Apostolic Palace around 1500. From: Ehrle, F, & Stevenson, H., Gli affreschi del Pinturicchio nell'appartamento Borgia, (Rome, Danesi, 1897), p. 10. 3 Plan of the Appartamento Borgia around the time of Pope AlexanderVI. Adapted from: Ehrle, F, & Stevenson, H., Gli affreschi del Pinturicchio nell'appartamento Borgia, (Rome, Danesi,1897), Tavola A. 4 Sala dei Santi, Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Author’s photograph taken 2016 5 Sala dei Santi, Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Wall frieze 6 Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Floor tiles 7 Pinturicchio and assistants, Northern vault, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi, Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome. 8 Pinturicchio and assistants, Southern vault, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi, Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome. 9 Pinturicchio and assistants, Martyrdom of St Sebastian, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi, Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome 10 Pinturicchio and assistants, The Visitation, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi, Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome. 11 Pinturicchio and assistants, The Meeting of St Anthony Abbot and St Paul the Hermit, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi, Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome. 12 Pinturicchio and assistants, The Meeting of St Anthony Abbot and St Paul the Hermit, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi, Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome. - Detail 13 Pinturicchio and assistants, The Meeting of St Anthony Abbot and St Paul the Hermit, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi, Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome. - Detail 14 Pinturicchio, Disputà of St Katherine, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi. Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome 15 Pinturicchio, Disputà of St Katherine, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi. Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome - Detail 16 Pinturicchio, Disputà of St Katherine, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi. Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome - Detail 17 Pinturicchio, Disputà of St Katherine, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi. Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome - Detail 18 Pinturicchio, Disputà of St Katherine, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi. Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome - Detail 19 Pinturicchio, Disputà of St Katherine, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi. Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome - Detail 20 + Pinturicchio & workshop Pius II in Ancona to proclaim the Crusade, 1502-5, fresco, Libreria Piccolomini, Duomo, Siena - Detail 21 + Workshop of Gentile Bellini, Standing Turk, pen in brown ink, 29.9 cm. x 20.3 cm., late 15th century, annotated: Giovan Bellin venetus, Musée de Louvre, Paris, (4655). 22 Pinturicchio, Disputà of St Katherine, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi. Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome - Detail 23 Pinturicchio, Disputà of St Katherine, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi. Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome - Detail 24 Bartolomeo Veneto, Courtesan, early 15th century, oil on panel, 44 cm. x 34 cm., Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, (1077). 25 Pinturicchio and assistants, The Flight of St Barbara 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi, Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome. 26 Pinturicchio and assistants, Susanna and the Elders, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi, Apartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome. 27 L: Domenico di Michelino, Susanna and the Elders, 1460 - 1475, oil, 40.5 x 38.0 cm., Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. R: Lorenzo Lotto, Susanna and the Elders, 1517, oil on panel, 66 cm × 51 cm., Uffizi Gallery, Florence 28 Pinturicchio and assistants, Madonna and Child, 1493, fresco, Sala dei Santi, Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome. 31 © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us Pinturicchio and assistants, Resurrection, fresco, Sala dei misteri, Appartamento Borgia, Vatican Palace, Rome © Roger Gill 2018 Picture the Borgias – what Pope Alexander VI’s Vatican apartment can tell us Mantuan School, Medal for Alfonso d’Este & Lucrezia Borgia, 1502, bronze, dia. 58mm., Museo Civico Arche0logico, Bologna, (22767). 33 © Roger Gill 2018 View publication stats.