Pope alexander iv son jesus

It is fairly common knowledge that Jesus Christ was from the Middle East and so would have looked more like the picture on the right than the more familiar depiction on the left.

But what many people do not know is that the images we tend to think of when we think of Jesus, such as these…

….are actually pictures of Cesare Borgia, son of Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, and brother of Lucrezia Borgia. Machiavelli wrote The Prince about Cesare Borgia. Pope Alexander VI had all previous depictions of Jesus destroyed in about 1492, and replaced with images of his son. Henceforth, these have been the images used to depict Christ.

I was never sure why Pope Alexander VI did it, but always assumed it was to place his stamp on everything he could. He, after all invaded many of Italy’s city states, married his children to Spain, Naples and France in order to extend his power, bought the Papacy by means of bribery and corruption, legitimised his children, had m

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Last updated on March 1st, 2023 at 05:00 pm

Writing in 1843 in his collection of eighteen essays compiled and entitled as Celebrated Crimes, the great French novelist, Alexandre Dumas, made a startling claim about modern depictions of Jesus Christ. 

Dumas claimed that all modern depictions made of the great Jewish prophet and the Christian son of god stemmed from pictures of one individual.

That person, the author of such masterpieces as The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo stated, was one Cesare Borgia, a fifteenth-century Italian cardinal and the son of Pope Alexander VI. 

There is indeed a striking similarity between Borgia, as he appears in several portraits that have survived him, and the modern image of Jesus. But is this just pure coincidence, or was there some merit to Dumas’s claim? Here we examine the Frenchman’s hypothesis.

Who Was Cesare Borgia?

Everyone knows who Jesus Christ was, but who exactly was Cesare

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Cesare Borgia Jesus: Who fryst vatten the Image of Jesus Christ Based On?

When you’re looking for a real-life model for Jesus Christ, you’d be hard pushed to think of a less appropriate stand-in for the Prince of Peace than Cesare Borgia.

One of the most notorious members of Renaissance Italy’s most notorious dynasties, the cruel Cesare was thought to be the inspiration for Niccolo Machiavelli’s satirical handbook for would-be tyrants, The Prince.

Thanks to his father – who became Pope Alexander oss in 1471 – Cesare was made a bishop at the age of 15 and a huvudregel at the age of 18. At this point in history the Pope directly ruled over a kingdom that dominated huvud Italy from its capital of Rome.

Though a rising star in the church, Cesare fancied himself a military man. There was one bekymmer though, his father had chosen that career for his older brother, Giovanni. Pope Alexander had appointed his pride and joy Captain General of the Church — the supreme commander of the Papal State